Runic Letter W

Group: Ancient scripts

Keywords

ancient

About this character

Runic Letter W belongs to the Ancient scripts group and is encoded at U+16A5. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+16A5
Hex: 16A5
Decimal: 5797
HTML: ᚥ
CSS: \16A5
JavaScript: \u16A5
Python: \u16A5
UTF-8: E1 9A A5

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Egyptian Hieroglyph A001 U+13000 Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A002 U+13001 Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A003 U+13002 Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A004 U+13003 Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A005 U+13004 Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A005A U+13005 Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A006 U+13006 Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A006A U+13007 Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A006B U+13008 Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A007 U+13009 Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A008 U+1300A Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A009 U+1300B Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A010 U+1300C Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A011 U+1300D Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A012 U+1300E Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A013 U+1300F Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A014 U+13010 Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A014A U+13011 Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A015 U+13012 Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A016 U+13013 Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A017 U+13014 Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A017A U+13015 Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A018 U+13016 Similar
Egyptian Hieroglyph A019 U+13017 Similar

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.