U+2C72 "Ⱳ" Latin Capital Letter W with Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+2C72 "Ⱳ" Latin Capital Letter W with Hook is a letter from the extended Latin alphabet used primarily in the transcription of certain African languages, such as those in the Mande and Gur language families, where it represents a labialized velar approximant or a similar bilabial-velar sound that a standard W cannot capture. Its lowercase counterpart is U+2C73, and the "hook" attached to the top of the letter distinguishes it visually and phonetically from the ordinary Latin W. This character is part of the Latin Extended-C block, added to Unicode to support accurate orthography for linguistic documentation and indigenous language education.
General Properties
Code Point
U+2C72
Name
Latin Capital Letter W with Hook
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ⱳ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ⱳ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0xB1 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2C72
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002C72
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2c72
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