Latin Capital Letter W
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 87 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter w.
- Alt code
- Alt+87
- HTML entity
- W
- Unicode
- U+0057
About this symbol
W is a double U, as its English name says, or a double V, as French and Spanish call it. Scribes began writing two u’s or v’s together in the seventh century for the w sound, and after the Norman Conquest of 1066 it replaced the old English letter wynn, ƿ.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Uppercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Related
- Ԝ Cyrillic Capital Letter We U+051C
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.