U+1F126 "🄦" Parenthesized Latin Capital Letter W Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F126 "🄦" Parenthesized Latin Capital Letter W is a typographic symbol within the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block, designed to represent a capital letter W enclosed by parentheses for use in specialized notation, such as in telephone directories, signage, or metadata where superscript or parenthesized referencing is needed. It serves as a distinct glyph for systems requiring clear, single-character representation of the letter W in a parenthetical or citation context, aligning with other parenthesized Latin letters in the same Unicode range to support consistent encoding of abbreviated labels and identifiers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F126 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Parenthesized Latin Capital Letter W |
| Block | Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis "W" U+0057 Latin Capital Letter W ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🄦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🄦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x84 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDD26 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F126 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udd26 |