W

W
ISO basic Laitin alphabet

Cursive script 'w' and capital 'W' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style

W (named double-u,^[1] plural double-ues^[2]^[3]) is the 23rd letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

In ither Germanic leids, includin German, its name is seemilar tae that o Inglis V.^[4] In mony leids, its name leeterally means "double v": Spaingie doble ve (tho it can be spelt uve doble),^[5]^{[note 1]} French double vé, Icelandic tvöfalt vaff, Czech dvojité vé, Finnish kaksois-vee, etc.

Computin codes

Character	W		w
Unicode name	LATIN CAIPITAL LETTER W		LATIN SMAA LETTER W
Encodins	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	87	U+0057	119	U+0077
UTF-8	87	57	119	77
Numeric chairacter reference	W	W	w	w
EBCDIC faimily	230	E6	166	A6
ASCII ¹	87	57	119	77

¹ An aa for encodins based on ASCII, includin the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh faimilies o encodins.

Ither representations

NATO phonetic	Morse code
Whiskey	·––

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Seegnal banner	Banner semaphore	American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin)	Braille dots-2456

Notes

↑ In American Spanish, it is doble ve, similar regional variations exist in other Spanish-speaking countries

References

↑ Pronounced /ˈdʌbəljuː/, /ˈdʌbəjuː/, /ˈdʌbəjə/, or /ˈdʌbjə/
↑ "W", Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993)
↑ Brown & Kiddle (1870) The institutes of grammar, p. 19.
Double-ues is the plural of the name of the letter; the plural of the letter itself is written W's, Ws, w's, or ws.
↑ W: German on Wiktionary
↑ "Real Academia Española elimina la Ch y ll del alfabeto". Taringa!. 5 November 2010. Archived frae the original on 3 Juin 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2011.

Freemit airtins

The dictionar defineetion o W at Wiktionary
The dictionar defineetion o w at Wiktionary

The ISO basic Laitin alphabet v t e
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Letter W with diacritics
Ẃẃ	Ẁẁ	Ŵŵ	Ẅẅ	Ẇẇ	Ẉẉ	W̊ẘ	Ⱳⱳ
Related
Derivations Diacritics History ISO/IEC 646 Leet o letters Numerals Palaeography Punctuation Unicode

[6] In American Spanish, it is doble ve, similar regional variations exist in other Spanish-speaking countries

[1] Pronounced /ˈdʌbəljuː/, /ˈdʌbəjuː/, /ˈdʌbəjə/, or /ˈdʌbjə/

[2] "W", Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993)

[3] Brown & Kiddle (1870) The institutes of grammar, p. 19.
Double-ues is the plural of the name of the letter; the plural of the letter itself is written W's, Ws, w's, or ws.

[4] W: German on Wiktionary

[5] "Real Academia Española elimina la Ch y ll del alfabeto". Taringa!. 5 November 2010. Archived frae the original on 3 Juin 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2011.

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