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A W-graph is a partially known graph which contains wild-components. A wild-component is an incompletely defined connected subgraph having p vertices and p-1 unspecified edges. The informations we know on a wild-component are which has a vertex set and between any two vertices there is one and only one path. In this paper, we discuss the properties of circuits in a W-graph (called W-circuits). Although a W-graph has unspecified edges, we can obtain some important properties of W-circuits. We show that the W-ring sum of W-circuits is also a W-circuit in the same W-graph. The following (1) and (2) are proved: (1) A W-circuit Ci of a W-graph can be transformed into either a circuit or an edge disjoint union of circuits, denoted by Ci*, of a graph derived from the W-graph, (2) if W-circuits C1, C2,