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  Cursive script 'w' and capital 'W' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style
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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[eedit | eedit soorce]
| Character | W | w | ||
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| 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 0 | E6 | 166 0 | A6 |
| ASCII 1 | 87 0 | 57 | 119 0 | 77 |
- 1 An aa for encodins based on ASCII, includin the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh faimilies o encodins.
Ither representations[eedit | eedit soorce]
| NATO phonetic | Morse code |
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| Seegnal banner | Banner semaphore | American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin) | Braille dots-2456 |
Notes[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ In American Spanish, it is doble ve, similar regional variations exist in other Spanish-speaking countries
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ 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. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
Freemit airtins[eedit | eedit soorce]
| Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | ||
Letter W with diacritics
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| Ẃẃ | Ẁẁ | Ŵŵ | Ẅẅ | Ẇẇ | Ẉẉ | W̊ẘ | Ⱳⱳ | |||||||||||||||||||
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