W with Accent (ŵẁẃ-ŴẀẂ) | Accented W Capital Lowercase with ALT Code
W with accent letters include ŵ with a circumflex, ẁ with a grave accent, ẃ with an acute accent and ẅ with a diaeresis or umlaut. Tap any accented W below to copy it, in lowercase or uppercase.
To type accented w rather than copy it, use the ALT code beside each character: Alt+7811 gives ẃ, Alt+7810 gives Ẃ. Every accented W here also carries its Unicode point, decimal value, hexadecimal value and HTML entity.
W with Accent (ŵẁẃ-ŴẀẂ) Copy and Paste: Type Accented w on Keyboard with ALT Code
Every accented W letter with its ALT code, split into lowercase and uppercase so you can go straight to the form you need. Tap a tile to copy that character to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on Mac.
A leading zero matters more than it looks: Alt+7811 and its siblings address the Windows ANSI set and behave the same in every application, while the same number without that zero is read against the old DOS code page and can return a different symbol. Anything past 255 is a raw Unicode decimal, and if one of those gives you a black block, use the hexadecimal method below instead.
Small Letter w With Accent: Lowercase Accented w Copy and Paste
All 8 lowercase accented w characters, from the everyday ẃ to the stacked Vietnamese forms.
Capital Letter W With Accent: Uppercase Accented W Copy and Paste
All 7 uppercase accented W characters, each with its own ALT code, a capital is never the lowercase code with Shift held down.
How to Type Accented w Using ALT Code?
Accented W has no representation at all in the Windows ANSI character set. None of its 15 characters can be typed with the familiar four-digit code beginning with a zero, because no such code exists for them. Each one instead carries a raw Unicode decimal. The accented W characters are drawn from Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended Additional and Latin Extended-C, which is what determines whether a plain ALT code can reach them. How reliably that works depends entirely on the program you are typing into. In everyday writing the accented W people actually reach for is ẇ, used in Polish, Maltese, Turkish, and its code is Alt+7815. TYPE 2 is the dependable route for this letter.
TYPE 1 – How to use ALT codes on a keyboard with and without a dedicated numeric keypad?
For W the numbers are plain Unicode decimals rather than ANSI codes: Alt+373 for ŵ, Alt+7809 for ẁ, Alt+7811 for ẃ, Alt+7813 for ẅ. Word and Outlook resolve them correctly. Notepad, command prompts and most web form fields do not, and will return a black box instead, so treat this method as a Word convenience rather than something you can rely on everywhere.
Windows reads the number from the numeric keypad only, never from the digit row above the letters. Full keypad and Num Lock instructions are on the main typing guide.
When the result is a black box: A black box means the program mapped your number against its own legacy code page rather than Unicode and found nothing there. For W that happens with almost everything on this page, which is why TYPE 2 matters here.
TYPE 2 – How to type letters and symbols using ALT codes with the help of hexadecimal code?
For accented W this is not an advanced option, it is the method. Every character on this page sits above code point 255, from ŵ up to ⱳ at U+2C73, and hexadecimal reaches all 15 of them where the decimal codes are patchy.
Unicode is written U+nnnn and the bare hexadecimal is the nnnn part, so U+1E83 and 1E83 both point at ẃ. Any value from the technical section below works the same way.
Other ways to type accented W
macOS has no dead-key combination for accented W. Press Control+Command+Space to open the Character Viewer, search the character by name, and double-click to insert it, or copy it from the list above.
Word has no dedicated shortcut for accented W. Use the ALT code, the Alt+X hexadecimal method above, or Insert, then Symbol, then More Symbols.
Press and hold the w key on the on-screen keyboard. The row that appears offers ŵ and similar, and you slide onto the one you want before lifting.
The row offers only the forms your installed keyboard languages cover, so adding a second language in keyboard settings widens what is on offer for w.
HTML: paste the character directly on a UTF-8 page, or use ẃ or ẃ.
CSS: content:”\\1E83″
JavaScript and Java: “\\u1E83”
Python: “\\u1e83”
Accented W Technical Information: Unicode, HTML, CSS and JavaScript Codes
Technical information for every accented W letter: Unicode code point, HTML hexadecimal entity, HTML decimal entity, ALT code, CSS escape, and the escape used in JavaScript, Java and C. These are the values you need when the character cannot travel as a pasted glyph, inside a CSS content property, a minified string, a config file with an uncertain encoding, or a database column still set to latin1.
Accented W Letters by Language: Polish, Turkish, Welsh and More
Accented W letters by language. Polish, Turkish, Welsh, Irish, Maltese and African orthographies each use their own small set of accented W characters rather than the whole page, so find the language you are writing in and you have its exact working set, lowercase and uppercase, ready to tap and copy. The note under each set flags the characters that behave differently from how they look.
Polish accented W letters
Polish writes ẇ with a dot above.
Turkish accented W letters
Turkish writes ẇ with a dot above.
Welsh accented W letters
Welsh writes ŵ with a circumflex, ẁ with a grave accent, ẃ with an acute accent and ẅ with a diaeresis or umlaut.
Irish accented W letters
Irish writes ẇ with a dot above.
Maltese accented W letters
Maltese writes ẇ with a dot above.
African orthographies accented W letters
African orthographies writes ⱳ with a hook.
Sanskrit and Indic transliteration accented W letters
Sanskrit and Indic transliteration writes ẉ with a dot below.
Semitic transliteration accented W letters
Semitic transliteration writes ẉ with a dot below.
W with Accent (ŵẁẃ-ŴẀẂ) FAQ: ALT Codes, Copy Paste and Unicode
On Windows, hold ALT and type the code on the numeric keypad: Alt+373 for ŵ, Alt+7809 for ẁ, Alt+7811 for ẃ. macOS has no dead-key shortcut for this letter, so use the Character Viewer with Control+Command+Space. On a phone, press and hold the w key and slide onto the variant you want. Or tap any character on this page to copy it.
Alt+7811. Hold ALT, type the digits on the numeric keypad, then release ALT. The number row above the letters will not work. The capital Ẃ is Alt+7810, a different code entirely.
The marks lean in opposite directions and mean different things. The acute on ẃ generally marks stress or a long vowel, as in Spanish, Czech and Hungarian. The grave on ẁ marks a lower pitch or a more open vowel and appears mostly in French, Italian and Catalan. They are not interchangeable, and swapping one for the other is a spelling error.
Polish, Turkish, Welsh and Irish are the main ones, and the full breakdown with the exact characters each language needs is further up this page. Most writers only ever need four or five of the characters listed here.
The character is correct but the font in use does not contain that glyph, so your device shows a placeholder instead. This happens most often with the rarer forms of W. Switch to a font with wide Latin coverage such as Arial, Calibri, Charis SIL or Noto Serif and the letter will display properly. Nothing is wrong with the text itself, and it will paste correctly elsewhere.
Use the precomposed character, which is what every entry on this page is. A plain w followed by a separate combining mark looks identical on screen but counts as two characters, which breaks search, sorting and spell check, and creates duplicate records in databases and forms.