W, or w, is the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is double-u, plural double-ues.
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W is the twenty-third letter of the English alphabet and many other modern languages around the world. It gets its name "double-u" from its shape, which resembles two U letters joined together.
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- Grapheme.name
- W
- Grapheme.letter
- W w
- Grapheme.script
- Latin script
- Grapheme.type
- Alphabet
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic and logographic
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+0057, U+0077
- Grapheme.alphanumber
- 23
- Grapheme.fam1
- G43T3
- Grapheme.fam2
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- Grapheme.fam3
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- Grapheme.fam4
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Waw
- Grapheme.fam5
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- Grapheme.fam6
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- Name
- History
- Use in writing systems
- English
- Other languages
- Other systems
- Other uses
- Related characters
- Ancestors, descendants and siblings
- Ligatures and abbreviations
- Other representations
- Unicode <span class="anchor" id="Computing codes"></span>
- Other
- See also
- References
- Informational notes
- Citations
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W, or w, is the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is double-u, plural double-ues.
==Name== The name “double-u” reflects stages in the letter’s evolution when it was considered two of the same letter, a double U.