U+01F6 "Ƕ" Latin Capital Letter Hwair Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+01F6 "Ƕ" Latin Capital Letter Hwair is a historical letter used primarily in Gothic orthography to represent the sound /hw/, similar to the English "wh" in words like "what" or "when." It is a ligature of the letter "H" and the letter "W," reflecting its dual phonetic role, and it appears in the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode. While rare in modern typography, the character is occasionally employed in linguistic or historical texts to transcribe Gothic or Old English, where it serves as a distinct grapheme for the labialized voiceless velar fricative.
General Properties
Code Point
U+01F6
Name
Latin Capital Letter Hwair
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ƕ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ƕ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xC7 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding
0x01F6
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000001F6
C/C++/Java Escape
\u01f6
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