U+1D416 "𝐖" Mathematical Bold Capital W Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𝐖

U+1D416 "𝐖" Mathematical Bold Capital W is a typographic variant of the standard uppercase Latin letter W, designed to be used in mathematical and scientific typesetting to represent variables, vectors, or other symbolic quantities in boldface. It belongs to the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, which was introduced in Unicode version 3.1 to provide distinct characters for mathematical notation, thereby preventing ambiguity with plain text and enabling more precise rendering in digital documents. This character is visually identical to a common bold W but is treated as a separate code point so that it can be reliably styled or searched for in contexts where format-based boldness might be lost, such as in plain text or across different software platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+1D416
Version Added 3.1
Name Mathematical Bold Capital W
Block Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Font
Decomposition Mapping "W" U+0057 Latin Capital Letter W

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𝐖
HTML Hex Encoding 𝐖
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9D 0x90 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD835 0xDC16
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001D416
C/C++/Java Escape \ud835\udc16

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Uppercase Yes
Cased 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 Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Math Yes
Other Math Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break Upper