U+01F6 "Ƕ" Latin Capital Letter Hwair Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01F6 "Ƕ" Latin Capital Letter Hwair is a historical letter used primarily in Gothic orthography to represent the sound /hw/, similar to the English "wh" in words like "what" or "when." It is a ligature of the letter "H" and the letter "W," reflecting its dual phonetic role, and it appears in the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode. While rare in modern typography, the character is occasionally employed in linguistic or historical texts to transcribe Gothic or Old English, where it serves as a distinct grapheme for the labialized voiceless velar fricative.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01F6 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Hwair |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ƕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ƕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01F6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001F6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01f6 |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ƕ" U+0195 Latin Small Letter Hv |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ƕ" U+0195 Latin Small Letter Hv |
| Simple Case Folding | "ƕ" U+0195 Latin Small Letter Hv |
| Case Folding | "ƕ" U+0195 Latin Small Letter Hv |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ƕ" U+0195 Latin Small Letter Hv |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ƕ" U+0195 Latin Small Letter Hv |
| 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 |