x00E6

x00E6 refers to the Unicode code point U+00E6, which encodes the Latin small letter AE, commonly rendered as the ligature æ. It is a single character in the Latin-1 Supplement block and is used in several European languages as a distinct letter.

The character is officially named LATIN SMALL LETTER AE in Unicode. Its uppercase counterpart is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE, encoded as U+00C6 (Æ). In text processing, æ can be represented as the single glyph U+00E6 or, where unavailable, as the two-letter sequence 'ae'. In UTF-8 it is encoded as the two-byte sequence C3 A6. In HTML, it can be represented by the named entity æ, or numerically as æ or æ.

Usage and linguistic role vary by language. Æ is considered a separate letter in Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese alphabets, and it often appears in place of a vowel digraph in these languages. In Danish and Norwegian, æ represents a front rounded or unrounded vowel depending on dialect and orthography. In Icelandic and Faroese, it is part of the alphabet and participates in standard collation and spelling rules. In English, æ is infrequent and mostly encountered in loanwords, historical texts, or typographic contexts where a traditional ligature is preferred; modern spellings typically use the digraph "ae" instead.

In typography and computing, æ is treated as a single character in Unicode, distinct from the separate letters a and e, and is commonly used across Western text sets that support Latin-1 and Unicode.