not in the Roman alphabet, but the Modern English sound it represents is close to the devocalized consonant expressed by Roman -U- or -V-. In Old English, this originally was written -uu-, but by 8c. began to be expressed by the runic character wyn (Kentish wen), which looked like this: ? (the character is a late addition to the online font set and doesn't display properly on many computers, so it's something like a combination of lower-case -p- and a reversed -y-). In 11c., Norman scribes introduced -w-, a ligatured doubling of Roman -u- which had been used on the continent for the Germanic "w" sound, and wyn disappeared c. 1300. -W- is not properly a letter in the modern French alphabet, and it is used there only in borrowed foreign words, such as wagon, weekend, Western, whisky, wombat.
雙語例句
1. To close your document, press CTRL+W on your keyboard.
關閉文件時要同時按鍵盤上的CTRL鍵和W鍵。
來自柯林斯例句
2. George W. Bush carried the state with 56 percent of the vote.
喬治·W.布什在該州以56%的得票率獲勝。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Ayer started N. W. Ayer & Son in 1869, naming the firm for his father.
艾爾在1869年成立了N.W.艾爾父子公司，公司以他父親的名字命名。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The vacant W.B.C. junior-lightweight title has been called off.
空缺的世界拳擊理事會次輕量級頭銜被取消了。
來自柯林斯例句
5. W. Somerset Maugham's novel still packs an emotional punch.