U+1E80 "Ẁ" Latin Capital Letter W with Grave Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E80 "Ẁ" Latin Capital Letter W with Grave is a relatively rare precomposed glyph used primarily in certain transliteration systems and linguistic contexts where a grave accent (a low, downward sloping mark) is applied to a capital W. It appears in some older or specialized orthographies for languages like Welsh or in scholarly transcriptions of ancient texts, where it can denote a specific tonal or stress pattern. This character is distinct from the standard Latin letter W combined with a separate combining grave accent, as it is encoded as a single unified unit in the Unicode standard to ensure compatibility and predictable rendering across different fonts and software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E80 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter W with Grave |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| 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+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ẁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ẁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E80 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E80 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e80 |
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 | "ẁ" U+1E81 Latin Small Letter W with Grave |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ẁ" U+1E81 Latin Small Letter W with Grave |
| Simple Case Folding | "ẁ" U+1E81 Latin Small Letter W with Grave |
| Case Folding | "ẁ" U+1E81 Latin Small Letter W with Grave |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ẁ" U+1E81 Latin Small Letter W with Grave |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ẁ" U+1E81 Latin Small Letter W with Grave |
| 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 |