U+1E81 "ẁ" Latin Small Letter W with Grave Unicode Character

U+1E81 "ẁ" Latin Small Letter W with Grave is a lowercase letter w that has been combined with a grave accent diacritic, indicating a specific pronunciation or tone in certain languages. It is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is primarily used in the Welsh language to denote a stressed or long w sound, often appearing in words like "ẁn" to mark a falling intonation. This character is distinct from a standard w and requires proper encoding in digital text to ensure accurate representation and rendering in typography and computing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E81
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter W with Grave
Block	Latin Extended Additional
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"w" U+0077 Latin Small Letter W "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ẁ
HTML Hex Encoding	ẁ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBA 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1E81
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001E81
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1e81

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ẁ" U+1E80 Latin Capital Letter W with Grave
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ẁ" U+1E80 Latin Capital Letter W with Grave
Uppercase Code Point	"Ẁ" U+1E80 Latin Capital Letter W with Grave
Titlecase Code Point	"Ẁ" U+1E80 Latin Capital Letter W with Grave
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower