U+24CC Circled Latin Capital Letter W
U+24CC was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Enclosed Alphanumerics in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. Its lowercase variant is Circled Latin Small Letter W.
The glyph is a circle version of the glyph Latin Capital Letter W. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+24CC forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Enclosed Alphanumerics is a Unicode block of typographical symbols of an alphanumeric within a circle, a bracket or other not-closed enclosure, or ending in a full stop.
It is currently fully allocated. Within the Basic Multilingual Plane, a few additional enclosed numerals are in the Dingbats and the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months blocks. There is also a block with more of these characters in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane named Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement (U+1F100–U+1F1FF), as of Unicode 6.0.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9420 |
| UTF-8 | E2 93 8C |
| UTF-16 | 24 CC |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 24 CC |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%93%8C |
| HTML hex reference | Ⓦ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ⓦ |
| Adobe Glyph List | Wcircle |
| digraph | W-o |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W | |
| — | |
| Enclosed Alphanumerics | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| circle | |
| Latin Capital Letter W | |
| ✘ | |
| Circled Latin Small Letter W | |
| Circled Latin Small Letter W | |
| ✔ | |
| Circled Latin Capital Letter W | |
| Circled Latin Capital Letter W | |
| Circled Latin Capital Letter W | |
| Circled Latin Capital Letter W | |
| Circled Latin Small Letter W | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Circled Latin Capital Letter W | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter W | |
| No | |
| Latin Small Letter W | |
| No | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Upper | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Circled Latin Capital Letter W | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Circled Latin Small Letter W | |
| U |