W

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The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W
Basic Latin	U+0057

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Letter 1.1.1 See also 1.2 Symbol 1.3 See also 2 English 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Abbreviation 2.2.1 Derived terms 2.2.2 See also 2.3 Noun 2.4 See also 3 American Sign Language 3.1 Letter 4 Dutch 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Letter 4.3 See also 5 Italian 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Noun 5.3 Symbol 5.3.1 Antonyms 6 Spanish 6.1 Letter 6.1.1 Synonyms

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Wikipedia

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W upper case (lower case w)

1. The twenty-third letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

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• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter W):  Ẃẃ  Ẁẁ  Ŵŵ  Ẅẅ  Ẇẇ  Ẉẉ  ẘẘ  Ⱳⱳ  ᴡ  Ｗｗ

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W

1. (chemistry) Symbol for tungsten.
2. (metrology) Symbol for watt.
3. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for tryptophan

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Other representations of W:

NATO phonetic: Whiskey Morse code: ·–– Braille: ⠺ ASL Manual: W

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

Letter styles

Capital and lowercase versions of W, in normal and italic type

Uppercase and lowercase W in Fraktur

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[edit] English

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• IPA: /ˈdʌbljuː/, SAMPA: /"dVblju:/

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W

1. Wednesday
2. (sports) The statistic for the number of wins by a team or player limited by some criteria (e.g. this season, at home, on turf)
3. (cricket) wickets
4. (neologism) Nickname for George W. Bush
5. (baseball) Wins; number of games won by a particular pitcher.

[edit] Derived terms

• (sports): OTW

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• (sports): L , T , OTL

[edit] Noun

W

1. The twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, preceded by V and followed by X.

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• w

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[edit] American Sign Language

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(Stokoe W)

1. The letter W

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ʋeː/

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W (capital, lowercase w)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Dutch alphabet.

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• Previous letter: V
• Next letter: X

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[edit] Italian

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• IPA: /ˈdɔppjovu/, SAMPA: /"dOppjovu/

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W m. and f. inv.

1. The twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet

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W

1. viva, evviva (up with)

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• M (down with)

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[edit] Spanish

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W (upper case, lower case w)

1. The 26th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

[edit] Synonyms

• doble u (Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico)
• doble ve (Latin America)
• uve doble (Spain)
• ve doble (Peru)