U+0057 "W" Latin Capital Letter W Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+0057 "W" Latin Capital Letter W is a fundamental grapheme in the Latin alphabet, representing the twenty-third letter in the English alphabet and many other writing systems. It is encoded in the Basic Latin block of Unicode, with its ASCII counterpart being decimal 87 and hexadecimal 57. Historically, this letter evolved from a ligature of two U's or V's in Latin script, which is reflected in its traditional English name "double-u." In modern typography, the capital W typically appears with two symmetrical, angled strokes meeting at a central point, and it is used in a wide range of contexts, from written language to abbreviations such as "WWW" for the World Wide Web.
General Properties
Code Point
U+0057
Name
Latin Capital Letter W
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
W
HTML Hex Encoding
W
UTF-8 Encoding
0x57
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0057
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000057
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0057
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Latin