Latin Small Letter W
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 119 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter w.
- Alt code
- Alt+119
- HTML entity
- w
- Unicode
- U+0077
About this symbol
Old English wrote the w sound with wynn, ƿ, a letter borrowed from runes. After the Norman Conquest, scribes trained on the Continent replaced it with a doubled u, and by approximately 1300 wynn had gone.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER W
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Lowercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Related
- ԝ Cyrillic Small Letter We U+051Dᴡ Latin Letter Small Capital W U+1D21
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.