w

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The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER W
Basic Latin	U+0077

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Letter 1.2 See also 2 English 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Letter 2.3 Abbreviation 3 Dutch 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Letter 3.3 See also 4 French 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Letter 5 Haitian Creole 5.1 Pronoun 6 Italian 6.1 Noun 7 Japanese 7.1 Alternative spellings 7.2 Etymology 7.3 Interjection 8 Polish 8.1 Etymology 8.2 Pronunciation 8.3 Preposition 8.3.1 Usage notes 9 Spanish 9.1 Letter

[edit] Translingual

Wikipedia

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w lower case (upper case W)

1. The twenty-third letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
2. A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiced labial-velar approximant.
3. The first letter of callsigns allocated to American broadcast television and radio stations east of the Mississippi river.
4. The nickname of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States.

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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
• Turned: ʍ
• Ƿ
• ʬ

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

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdʌbljuː/, /'dʌbjə/, SAMPA: /"dVblju:/

 Audio (US)^{help, file}

• Rhymes: -ʌbjə

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w (lowercase, uppercase W)

1. The 23rd letter of the English alphabet, preceded by v and followed by x, and representing /w/.

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W

1. watt
2. west
3. White
4. Witness
5. Work

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ʋeː/

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w (lower case, upper case W)

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

[edit] See also

• Previous letter: v
• Next letter: x

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[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [du.blə.ve]

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w

1. w

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[edit] Haitian Creole

[edit] Pronoun

w

1. Contraction of ou.

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

w m. and f. inv.

1. See under W

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Alternative spellings

• ｗ

[edit] Etymology

Short for 笑う (warau, laugh, smile).

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w

1. (Internet, slang) (derogatory) LOL; an expression of laughter, commonly to ridicule someone.

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[edit] Polish

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vъ(n) < Proto-Indo-European *h₁en

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /v/, /f/

[edit] Preposition

w (with locative)

1. in

[edit] Usage notes

• Some combinations of sounds, mostly consonant clusters at the beginning of the following noun, require that this preposition is used in longer form we. Examples:

• we włosach (in the hair)
• we Wrocławiu (in Wroclaw)

but:

• w Warszawie (in Warsaw)

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[edit] Spanish

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w (lower case, upper case W)

1. The 26th letter of the Spanish alphabet.