U+1E85 "ẅ" Latin Small Letter W with Diaeresis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ẅ
U+1E85 "ẅ" Latin Small Letter W with Diaeresis is a precomposed character that represents the letter w with a diaeresis, a diacritical mark consisting of two dots placed above the letter. It is primarily used in some languages and transcription systems, such as in the Welsh language for certain phonetic distinctions or in linguistic notation to indicate a modified pronunciation, like a fronted or unrounded w sound. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode, encoded for compatibility and textual representation, and it can also be decomposed into a base Latin small letter w followed by a combining diaeresis mark (U+0308) for systems that support combining characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E85 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter W with Diaeresis |
| 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+0308 Combining Diaeresis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ẅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ẅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E85 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E85 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e85 |
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 | "Ẅ" U+1E84 Latin Capital Letter W with Diaeresis |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ẅ" U+1E84 Latin Capital Letter W with Diaeresis |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ẅ" U+1E84 Latin Capital Letter W with Diaeresis |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ẅ" U+1E84 Latin Capital Letter W with Diaeresis |
| 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 |