W

Latin Capital Letter W

U+0057
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character W
Decimal W
Hex W

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+0057
Decimal
87
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Uppercase Letter (Lu)
Script
Latin
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
Na Narrow
Properties
Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue
Lowercase
w U+0077

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Latin Capital Letter W.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
W
HTML Hex
W
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
57
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
00 57
UTF-32 Hex
00000057
CSS Escape
\57
JavaScript Escape
\u0057
Python Escape
\u0057
URL Encoded
W
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