ligature (æ, œ, ß)æ
Two letters fused into one shape. There is no combining mark for it, so the ligature exists only as a character of its own: French œ is mandatory in cœur, sœur and œuf, æ appears in ex æquo, and German ß comes from the long s plus s or z. In Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic, æ is not a ligature at all any more but a full letter of the alphabet.
Letters with ligature (æ, œ, ß)
How to type ligature (æ, œ, ß)
- Dead key on the US-International layout
- AltGr+z (æ); œ is not available then a
- Mac
- Option+' (æ), Option+q (œ), Option+s (ß) then a
- Linux Compose
- Compose a e (æ), o e (œ), s s (ß) a