Modifier Letter Small W

U+02B7

Modifier Letter Small W is the Unicode character ʷ at codepoint U+02B7 in the Spacing Modifier Letters block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.

Technical Reference

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How to Use Modifier Letter Small W

To use the Modifier Letter Small W symbol (ʷ) in HTML, insert the entity ʷ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ʷ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2B7';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u02B7' evaluates to ʷ. In Python source, write '\u02B7'.

The character encodes to CA B7 as UTF-8 bytes and 02B7 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 695.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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Last updated on 5 May 2026