What ԝ means
It is a Cyrillic letter used for [w] in Kurdish.
In 1945, a Soviet Kurdish alphabet reform added W for [w], keeping Kurdish writing in Cyrillic while giving this sound its own letter. Heciyê Cindî published the completed alphabet in 1946; a 1957 Armenian–Kurdish dictionary shows ԝ. Latin W is the design ancestor, and Ԝ is its capital partner.
ԝ also appears in a Tajik-based Cyrillic adaptation for Yaghnobi, alongside a Latin writing system devised in the 1990s. Some Tundra Yukaghir editions use it for В; that orthography was accepted in 1987. The language and spelling system tell you how to read it.
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How to type or find ԝ
- Search it as
- cyrillic w · kurdish cyrillic w · yaghnobi we · tundra yukaghir we
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
ԝCSS
\051DCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ԝ
HTML hex
ԝ
CSS content
content: "\051D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%D4%9D
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On screen
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.