U+0174 "Ŵ" Latin Capital Letter W with Circumflex Unicode Character
U+0174 "Ŵ" Latin Capital Letter W with Circumflex is a variant of the letter W that incorporates a circumflex accent above it, primarily used in the orthographies of certain languages such as Chewa (Chichewa) and Nyanja, where it represents a palatalized or specific phonetic sound distinct from a regular W. This character is part of the Latin Extended-A block in Unicode and is typographically composed by combining the base letter W with the combining circumflex accent, though it has its own precomposed code point for compatibility with legacy systems. In linguistic contexts, it often appears in transliterations and dictionaries to indicate a modified pronunciation, and it is standardized for digital text representation to ensure consistent rendering across different platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0174 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter W with Circumflex |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter W Circumflex |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "W" U+0057 Latin Capital Letter W "̂" U+0302 Combining Circumflex Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ŵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ŵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0174 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000174 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0174 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ŵ" U+0175 Latin Small Letter W with Circumflex |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ŵ" U+0175 Latin Small Letter W with Circumflex |
| Simple Case Folding | "ŵ" U+0175 Latin Small Letter W with Circumflex |
| Case Folding | "ŵ" U+0175 Latin Small Letter W with Circumflex |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ŵ" U+0175 Latin Small Letter W with Circumflex |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ŵ" U+0175 Latin Small Letter W with Circumflex |
| 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 |