Ꝩ ꝩ
Writing cursive forms of Ꝩ
Usage
Writing systemLatin script
TypeAlphabetic and Logographic
Language of originOld Norse language
Phonetic usage[u]
[v]
[w]
/vɛnd/
Unicode codepointU+A768, U+A769
History
Development
Time period~800 to ~1200
DescendantsNone
SistersǷ ƿ
Transliteration equivalentsu, v, w
Other
Other letters commonly used withu, v, w
Writing directionLeft-to-right

Vend (Ꝩ, ꝩ) is a letter of Old Norse. It was used to represent the sounds /u/, /v/, and /w/.

It was related to and probably derived from the Old English letter Wynn of the Runic alphabet (ᚹ) and later the Latin alphabet ƿ), except that the bowl was open on the top, not being connected to the stem, which made it somewhat resemble a letter Y. It was eventually replaced with v or u for most writings.

Vend in Unicode and HTML entities

The upper and lowercase Vend were standardized in April 2008 as part of the Latin Extended-D block of Unicode 5.1[1]

Character information
Preview
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER VEND LATIN SMALL LETTER VEND
Encodingsdecimalhexdechex
Unicode42856U+A76842857U+A769
UTF-8234 157 168EA 9D A8234 157 169EA 9D A9
Numeric character referenceꝨꝨꝩꝩ

References

  1. "Unicode Utilities: Character Properties". util.unicode.org. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
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