U+24E6 Circled Latin Small Letter W

U+24E6 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2460 para U+24FF Enclosed Alphanumerics in the U+0000 para U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Otro símbolo and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. Its uppercase variant is Circled Latin Capital Letter W and its titlecase variant is Circled Latin Capital Letter W.

The glyph is a circle version of the glyph Latin Small 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+24E6 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.