Let 1 ď p ă 8, 0 ă q ă 8 and ν be a two-sided doubling weight satisfying sup 0ďră1 p1´rq q ş 1 r νptq dt ż r 0 νpsq p1´sq q ds ă 8. The weighted Besov space B p,q ν consists of those f P H p such that ż 1 0ˆż 2π 0 |f 1 pre iθ q| p dθ˙q {p νprq dr ă 8.Our main result gives a characterization for f P B p,q ν depending only on |f |, p, q and ν. As a consequence of the main result and inner-outer factorization, we obtain several interesting by-products. For instance, we show the following modification of a classical factorization by F. and R. Nevanlinna: If f P B p,q ν , then there exist f1, f2 P B p,q ν X H 8 such that f " f1{f2. Moreover, we give a sufficient and necessary condition guaranteeing that the product of f P H p and an inner function belongs to B p,q ν . Applying this result, we make some observations on zero sets of B p,p ν .