W
Technical information
| Symbol | W | |
| Name | Latin capital letter w | |
| Unicode number | U+0057 | |
| Category | ASCII Table5. Uppercase Latin alphabet | |
| Description | The Unicode character W, or U+0057, is known as the "Latin Capital Letter W". It belongs to the "Latin" block and falls under the "Letter, Uppercase" category in the Unicode standard. This character is the uppercase version of the twenty-third letter in the Latin alphabet. It typically represents the consonant sound /w/, as in "water" or "window". Visually, the letter W resembles two letter V's or U's placed next to each other, meeting at their bases. It's commonly used at the beginning of sentences and for proper nouns in many languages that utilize the Latin script. The specific appearance of this character can slightly vary based on the font and typography used. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | W | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | W | |
| URL Escape Code | W | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x57 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 01010111 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x0057 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00000057 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u0057" | |
| CSS Code | \0057 | |
| JavaScript | "\u0057" | |
| Perl | \x{0057} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u0057" | |
| Python 3 | \u0057 | |
| Ruby | \u{0057} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this W in sentence and in bold like this W and in italic like this W.
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Font size:
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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select
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>W</span>
span {
content: "\0057";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana