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U+24B2 · PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER W

Parenthesized Latin Small Letter W

  • CodepointU+24B2
  • NamePARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER W
  • Decimal9394
  • BlockEnclosed Alphanumerics (U+2460–U+24FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+24B2 (⒲) is PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER W, a symbol in the Enclosed Alphanumerics block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a compatibility variant of U+0028 ( + U+0077 w + U+0029 ) (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0028 ( + U+0077 w + U+0029 ). Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ⒲

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 92 B23 bytes
UTF-1624B21 code unit
UTF-32000024B24 bytes
HTML decimal&#9394;
HTML hex&#x24B2;
CSS\24B2in content: "…"
JavaScript\u24B2
JSON\u24B2
Python\u24B2
Python\N{PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER W}by name
Java / C#\u24B2
C / C++\u24B2universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{24B2}
Go\u24B2
Ruby\u24B2
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9394)
URL-encoded%E2%92%B2percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0028 ( + U+0077 w + U+0029 )
NFKDU+0028 ( + U+0077 w + U+0029 )
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Nearby in Enclosed Alphanumerics

All in block →
U+24AC⒬Parenthesized Latin Small Letter Q U+24AD⒭Parenthesized Latin Small Letter R U+24AE⒮Parenthesized Latin Small Letter S U+24AF⒯Parenthesized Latin Small Letter T U+24B0⒰Parenthesized Latin Small Letter U U+24B1⒱Parenthesized Latin Small Letter V U+24B3⒳Parenthesized Latin Small Letter X U+24B4⒴Parenthesized Latin Small Letter Y U+24B5⒵Parenthesized Latin Small Letter Z U+24B6ⒶCircled Latin Capital Letter A U+24B7ⒷCircled Latin Capital Letter B U+24B8ⒸCircled Latin Capital Letter C