also: エンド
Loan-style conjunction used mainly between nouns, names, product words, titles, or labels. In ordinary Japanese sentences, と is usually the natural equivalent of English 'and'.
Romeo and Juliet is a famous story.
This magazine covers fashion and culture.
コピー＆ペーストのやり方を教えてください。
Please teach me how to copy and paste.
AND; Boolean AND operator
Only when written ＡＮＤ
Technical noun for the logical operator that is true only when both conditions are true; Restricted this sense to ＡＮＤ.
検索条件をＡＮＤでつなぐと、両方の語を含む結果だけが出る。
If you connect the search terms with AND, only results containing both words appear.
「猫 AND 犬」で検索すると両方を含むページが出る。
Searching for 'cat AND dog' shows pages containing both.
及び is a formal written 'and' used in official documents or legal-style lists, whereas ＆ appears in casual or commercial contexts like product names.
ＡＮＤ returns true only when all inputs are true, whereas ＮＯＲ returns true only when all inputs are false, so learners can mix up the truth conditions.
Standard katakana spelling for the general conjunction use; the conjunction sense is usually written in kana.
Full-width roman-letter spelling; mainly useful in stylized Japanese text.
Common symbol spelling in names, labels, advertising, and compact noun pairings; read アンド.
Attested irregular kana/pronunciation variant; not the normal spelling for the ordinary conjunction アンド.
Uppercase full-width spelling used for the Boolean operator sense in logic, computing, and search conditions.
This word represents the English-looking word or symbol 'and' in Japanese katakana and full-width forms, but no formal language-of-origin annotation is specified.