Vend (letter)
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 (Runic alphabet ᚹ and later the Latin alphabet (Ƿ 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
Character | Ꝩ | ꝩ | ᚹ | Ƿ | ƿ | |||||
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Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER VEND | LATIN SMALL LETTER VEND | RUNIC LETTER WUNJO WYNN W | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER WYNN | LATIN LETTER WYNN | |||||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 42856 | U+A768 | 42857 | U+A769 | 5817 | U+16B9 | 503 | U+01F7 | 447 | U+01BF |
UTF-8 | 234 157 168 | EA 9D A8 | 234 157 169 | EA 9D A9 | 225 154 185 | E1 9A B9 | 199 183 | C7 B7 | 198 191 | C6 BF |
Numeric character reference | Ꝩ | Ꝩ | ꝩ | ꝩ | ᚹ | ᚹ | Ƿ | Ƿ | ƿ | ƿ |
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