U+1E82 "Ẃ" Latin Capital Letter W with Acute Unicode Character
U+1E82 "Ẃ" Latin Capital Letter W with Acute is a precomposed grapheme that represents the letter W with an acute accent mark above it, used primarily in certain orthographies and linguistic transcriptions. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block, which provides support for various European and African languages that require diacritical marks to indicate stress, tone, or vowel quality. Although relatively rare in common writing systems, it appears in some Welsh transliterations and in the notation of the Silesian language, where the acute accent distinguishes specific phonetic values. The precomposed form ensures consistent rendering across different platforms, as it combines the base letter and the accent into a single code point, rather than relying on a combining diacritic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E82 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter W with Acute |
| 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+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ẃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ẃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E82 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E82 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e82 |
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 | "ẃ" U+1E83 Latin Small Letter W with Acute |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ẃ" U+1E83 Latin Small Letter W with Acute |
| Simple Case Folding | "ẃ" U+1E83 Latin Small Letter W with Acute |
| Case Folding | "ẃ" U+1E83 Latin Small Letter W with Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ẃ" U+1E83 Latin Small Letter W with Acute |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ẃ" U+1E83 Latin Small Letter W with Acute |
| 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 |