U+1DF1 "ᷱ" Combining Latin Small Letter W Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᷱ
U+1DF1 "ᷱ" Combining Latin Small Letter W is a diacritical mark used in historical and linguistic notation, specifically in some medieval and early modern Latin manuscripts, to modify a base character. It represents a small letter w placed above another letter, often indicating a scribal abbreviation or a phonetic nuance, such as a labialization or a specific vowel quality, within the context of textual criticism and philological studies. This combining character ensures that the w glyph appears directly above its preceding character, preserving the intended orthographic and transcriptional accuracy of the source material.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1DF1 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Combining Latin Small Letter W |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᷱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᷱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB7 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1DF1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001DF1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1df1 |