U+1E80 "" Latin Capital Letter W with Grave Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+1E80 "" Latin Capital Letter W with Grave is a relatively rare precomposed glyph used primarily in certain transliteration systems and linguistic contexts where a grave accent (a low, downward sloping mark) is applied to a capital W. It appears in some older or specialized orthographies for languages like Welsh or in scholarly transcriptions of ancient texts, where it can denote a specific tonal or stress pattern. This character is distinct from the standard Latin letter W combined with a separate combining grave accent, as it is encoded as a single unified unit in the Unicode standard to ensure compatibility and predictable rendering across different fonts and software.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
Ẁ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ẁ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xBA 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1E80
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001E80
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1e80