Unicode Character "W" U+0057 Latin Capital Letter W
Unicode Version 15.1
W
Summary
The unicode character "W" at code point U+0057 is Latin Capital Letter W. It is a character in the Basic Latin block and is part of the Latin script. The character is an uppercase letter. The UTF-8 encoding of "W" is 0x57 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x0057.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0057 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter W |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | W |
| HTML Hex Encoding | W |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0x57 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0057 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000057 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0057 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Narrow |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "w" U+0077 Latin Small Letter W |
| Lowercase Code Point | "w" U+0077 Latin Small Letter W |
| Simple Case Folding | "w" U+0077 Latin Small Letter W |
| Case Folding | "w" U+0077 Latin Small Letter W |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "w" U+0077 Latin Small Letter W |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "w" U+0077 Latin Small Letter W |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |