"Way Beyond Z" listing of Letters Character Entities
Hexadecimal HTML | ALT+Decimal | Glyph | Description |
English: The letter ET looks like the digit 7, but was replaced by the ampersand. |
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English: This character was once a letter representing ET and evolved from looking like the digit 7, but relegated as a special symbol. |
& | 0038 | & | & Ampersand |
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English and Spanish: These are just the letters A and E smashed together! |
Æ | 0198 | Æ | Æ Latin Capital ASH or AE Ligature |
æ | 0230 | æ | æ Latin Lower ASH or AE Ligature |
Ǽ | 0508 | Ǽ | Latin Capital ASH or AE Ligature with acute |
ǽ | 0509 | ǽ | Latin Lower ASH or AE Ligature with acute |
Ǣ | 0482 | Ǣ | Latin Capital ASH or AE Ligature with macron |
ǣ | 0483 | ǣ | Latin Lower ASH or AE Ligature with macron |
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English and Spanish: This is just the letter D with a line through it. It was used for the sound "th". |
Ð | 0208 | Ð | Latin Capital ETH |
ð | 0240 | ð | Latin Lower ETH |
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English and Spanish: These are just the letters O and E smashed together. |
Œ | 0338 | Œ | Œ Latin Capital ETHEL or Ligature OE |
ɶ | 0630 | ɶ | Latin Letter Small Capital ETHEL or Ligature OE |
œ | 0339 | œ | œ Latin Small ETHEL or Ligature OE |
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English: This looks like a fancy letter N. |
Ŋ | 0330 | Ŋ | Latin Capital ENG |
ŋ | 0331 | ŋ | Latin Lower ENG |
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This looks like a pairing of the capital letter E with a lower case letter F. |
Ʃ | 0425 | Ʃ | Latin Capital ESH |
ʃ | 0643 | ʃ | Latin Lower ESH |
ʆ | 0646 | ʆ | Latin Lower ESH with curl |
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This is borrowed from the Greek alphabet. No Latin upper case version available. |
ɸ | 0632 | ɸ | Latin Lower PHI |
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English and Spanish: The letter W replaced it. |
Ƿ | 0503 | Ƿ | Latin Capital WYNN (sound of W) |
ƿ | 0447 | ƿ | Latin Lower WYNN (sound of W) |
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English and Spanish: This letter represents the present combo of the "th" sound, but since many typesetters didn't have that character, they used the letter "y" |
Þ | 0222 | Þ | Latin Capital THORN |
þ | 0254 | þ | Latin Lower THORN |
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English: The letter THAT is the letter THORN with a hat on top. It was shorthand for the word "that." |
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English: This character looked too much like the letter "F" |
ſ | 0383 | ſ | Latin Lower long S |
ẛ | 7835 | ẛ | Latin Lower long S with dot above |
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English: The letter Insular G was an ascendent of the letter YOGH, but when the letter "G" was invented, this letter was no longer needed. |
Ᵹ | 42877 | Ᵹ | Latin Capital Insular G |
ᵹ | 7545 | ᵹ | Latin Lower Insular G |
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English and Spanish: This looks like the number 3 |
Ȝ | 0540 | Ȝ | Latin Capital YOGH (sounds of Y, G or another letter) |
ȝ | 0541 | ȝ | Latin Lower YOGH (sounds of Y, G or another letter) |
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Looks like the letter "B". |
ẞ | 7838 | ẞ | Latin Capital Sharp S |
ß | 0223 | ß | Latin Lower Sharp S |
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