U+0057 "W" Latin Capital Letter W Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0057 "W" Latin Capital Letter W is a fundamental grapheme in the Latin alphabet, representing the twenty-third letter in the English alphabet and many other writing systems. It is encoded in the Basic Latin block of Unicode, with its ASCII counterpart being decimal 87 and hexadecimal 57. Historically, this letter evolved from a ligature of two U's or V's in Latin script, which is reflected in its traditional English name "double-u." In modern typography, the capital W typically appears with two symmetrical, angled strokes meeting at a central point, and it is used in a wide range of contexts, from written language to abbreviations such as "WWW" for the World Wide Web.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0057 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter W |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | W |
| HTML Hex Encoding | W |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0x57 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0057 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000057 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0057 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Narrow |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "w" U+0077 Latin Small Letter W |
| Lowercase Code Point | "w" U+0077 Latin Small Letter W |
| Simple Case Folding | "w" U+0077 Latin Small Letter W |
| Case Folding | "w" U+0077 Latin Small Letter W |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "w" U+0077 Latin Small Letter W |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "w" U+0077 Latin Small Letter W |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |