ʷ Modifier Letter Small W

Codes

JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.

Properties

Decomposition

MODIFIER LETTER SMALL W has a compatibility decomposition (super) to the sequence below. NFKC and NFKD normalisation replace it with that sequence, which can change how text looks, so use them for search, not for storage.

• w U+0077 Latin Small Letter W

Nearby in Spacing Modifier Letters

• ʰ U+02B0 Modifier Letter Small H
• ʱ U+02B1 Modifier Letter Small H With Hook
• ʲ U+02B2 Modifier Letter Small J
• ʳ U+02B3 Modifier Letter Small R
• ʴ U+02B4 Modifier Letter Small Turned R
• ʵ U+02B5 Modifier Letter Small Turned R With Hook
• ʶ U+02B6 Modifier Letter Small Capital Inverted R
• ʸ U+02B8 Modifier Letter Small Y
• ʹ U+02B9 Modifier Letter Prime
• ʺ U+02BA Modifier Letter Double Prime
• ʻ U+02BB Modifier Letter Turned Comma
• ʼ U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe
• ʽ U+02BD Modifier Letter Reversed Comma
• ʾ U+02BE Modifier Letter Right Half Ring
• ʿ U+02BF Modifier Letter Left Half Ring

All 80 characters: Spacing Modifier Letters.

Official reference

• Unicode code chart: Spacing Modifier Letters (PDF, unicode.org)

Questions people ask

What is the HTML code for ʷ?

Use ʷ (decimal) or ʷ (hex).

What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+02B7?

CA B7 (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %CA%B7.

How do I write U+02B7 in JavaScript or Python?

JavaScript: \u02B7. Python: \u02B7.

Source

Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.

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