U+1E86 "Ẇ" Latin Capital Letter W with Dot Above Unicode Character
U+1E86 "Ẇ" Latin Capital Letter W with Dot Above is a typographic variant of the standard Latin letter W, distinguished by a small dot placed directly over the capital letter. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is primarily used in linguistic or academic transcriptions, particularly for certain African languages such as the Ewe language, where the dot above indicates a specific phonetic quality, often representing a different sound or tone. It is also employed in Irish orthography for historical or pedagogical purposes to denote lenition or to clarify pronunciation in written texts. As a precomposed character, it ensures consistent rendering across digital platforms without requiring separate combining diacritic marks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E86 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter W with Dot Above |
| 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+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ẇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ẇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E86 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E86 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e86 |
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 | "ẇ" U+1E87 Latin Small Letter W with Dot Above |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ẇ" U+1E87 Latin Small Letter W with Dot Above |
| Simple Case Folding | "ẇ" U+1E87 Latin Small Letter W with Dot Above |
| Case Folding | "ẇ" U+1E87 Latin Small Letter W with Dot Above |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ẇ" U+1E87 Latin Small Letter W with Dot Above |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ẇ" U+1E87 Latin Small Letter W with Dot Above |
| 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 |