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U+028D · LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED W

Latin Small Letter Turned W

  • CodepointU+028D
  • NameLATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED W
  • Decimal653
  • BlockIPA Extensions (U+0250–U+02AF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptLatin
  • CategoryLl — Lowercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+028D (ʍ) is LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED W, a lowercase letter in the IPA Extensions block. It belongs to the Latin script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

How to type ʍ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CA 8D2 bytes
UTF-16028D1 code unit
UTF-320000028D4 bytes
HTML decimalʍ
HTML hexʍ
CSS\28Din content: "…"
JavaScript\u028D
JSON\u028D
Python\u028D
Python\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED W}by name
Java / C#\u028D
C / C++\u028Duniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{28D}
Go\u028D
Ruby\u028D
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(653)
URL-encoded%CA%8Dpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+043CмCyrillic Small Letter Em U+1D0DᴍLatin Letter Small Capital M U+AB87ꮇCherokee Small Letter Lu
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Characters built on ʍ

U+AB69ꭩModifier Letter Small Turned W
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Nearby in IPA Extensions

All in block →
U+0287ʇLatin Small Letter Turned T U+0288ʈLatin Small Letter T with Retroflex Hook U+0289ʉLatin Small Letter U Bar U+028AʊLatin Small Letter Upsilon U+028BʋLatin Small Letter V with Hook U+028CʌLatin Small Letter Turned V U+028EʎLatin Small Letter Turned Y U+028FʏLatin Letter Small Capital Y U+0290ʐLatin Small Letter Z with Retroflex Hook U+0291ʑLatin Small Letter Z with Curl U+0292ʒLatin Small Letter Ezh U+0293ʓLatin Small Letter Ezh with Curl