U+1E98 "ẘ" Latin Small Letter W with Ring Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E98 "ẘ" Latin Small Letter W with Ring Above is a specialized typographic symbol used primarily in certain orthographic and transliteration systems to represent a modified pronunciation of the letter W, often indicating a rounded or nasalized variant, and belongs to the Latin Extended Additional block introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is an uncommon character rarely encountered outside linguistic notation or academic texts, and its appearance adds a small diacritical ring above the standard lowercase W, distinguishing it from the plain letter while preserving its basic form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E98 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter W with Ring Above |
| 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+030A Combining Ring Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ẘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ẘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E98 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e98 |