('''') is the name of , the Gothic Letter expressing the '' Wh ''-sound, transliterated with a special Latin letter of the same name (lowercase , uppercase , introduced by philologists around 1900 to replace the Digraph ''hv'' formerly used to express the phoneme, e.g. by Migne (vol. 18) in the 1860s). The name is recorded by Alcuin in Codex Vindobonensis 795 as ''uuaer''. There was no Elder Futhark rune for the phoneme, so that unlike those of most Gothic letters, the name does not continue the name of a rune (but see '' Qairþra '').
The Gothic letter is assigned Unicode U+10348 , the Latin letter has codepoints U+0195 (lowercase) and U+01F6 (uppercase). It is not to be confused with the similar looking IPA Bilabial Click symbol, .
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