Ẃ

W with acute (majuscule: Ẃ, minuscule: ẃ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet formed by addition of the acute diacritic over the letter W. In the past, it was used in Lower Sorbian and Middle Polish.^[1][2][3] Now it is used in the Welsh orthography as an accented form of w, e. g. gẃraidd 'manly'.

W with acute
Ẃ ẃ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Lower Sorbian (obsolete) Middle Polish (obsolete) Welsh language
Sound values	[vʲ] (formerly)
In Unicode	U+1E82, U+1E83
Other
Writing direction	Left-to-Right
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Usage

The letter appeared in the alphabet made by Jan Kochanowski for Middle Polish, which was used from 16th until 18th century. It represented the palatalizated voiced labiodental fricative (vʲ) sound.^[1][2] It also was used in Lower Sorbian.^[3]

Encoding

Character information

Preview	Ẃ		ẃ
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH ACUTE		LATIN SMALL LETTER W WITH ACUTE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	7810	U+1E82	7811	U+1E83
UTF-8	225 186 130	E1 BA 82	225 186 131	E1 BA 83
Numeric character reference	Ẃ	Ẃ	ẃ	ẃ