U+1E83 "ẃ" Latin Small Letter W with Acute Unicode Character

U+1E83 "ẃ" Latin Small Letter W with Acute is a specialized letter used primarily in the orthography of the Welsh language to represent a stressed or long /ʊ/ sound, often found in words like "gẃydd" (goose). It is composed of a standard lowercase "w" combined with an acute accent diacritic above it, and its uppercase counterpart is U+1E82 "Ẃ". This character belongs to the Latin Extended Additional block of Unicode, and it serves as a crucial part of proper spelling and pronunciation in Welsh, distinguishing words that would otherwise be ambiguous.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E83
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter W with Acute
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+0301 Combining Acute Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ẃ
HTML Hex Encoding	ẃ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBA 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1E83
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001E83
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1e83

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	"Ẃ" U+1E82 Latin Capital Letter W with Acute
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ẃ" U+1E82 Latin Capital Letter W with Acute
Uppercase Code Point	"Ẃ" U+1E82 Latin Capital Letter W with Acute
Titlecase Code Point	"Ẃ" U+1E82 Latin Capital Letter W with Acute
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