What ᵂ means
It is a raised W used in phonetic transcription. UPA is a specialist notation for recording sounds, sound patterns, and word histories in Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian. A 2002 proposal to encode it argued for plain-text characters so precise linguistic details could be preserved in digital publications.
The proposal described UPA as more than a century old in 2002, first chiefly used in Finland, Hungary, Estonia, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Russia, and by then used worldwide. It includes examples of UPA in use from 1901 and cites ᵂ in Erkki Itkonen’s 1986 Inari Sámi dictionary.
Who writes ᵂ
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Questions people ask
1Does ᵂ always stand for the same sound?
No. It is used in phonetic notation, but its exact reading depends on the transcription system and the surrounding symbols.
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How to type or find ᵂ
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- UPA · Uralic Phonetic Alphabet · FUT · Finno-Ugric transcription · superscript W · modifier W · phonetic W · ᵂ vs ʷ
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ᵂ\1D421d42 and press AltX. In code, use \u1D42 only in a language or editor that accepts Unicode escapes.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.