Vend (letter)

Ꝩ
	Ꝩ ꝩ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabetic and Logographic
Language of origin	Old Norse language
Phonetic usage	[u]; [v]; [w]; /vɛnd/
Unicode value	U+A768, U+A769
History
Development	ᚹ Ƿ ƿ Ꝩ ꝩ; ;
Time period	~800 to ~1200
Descendants	None
Sisters	None
Transliteration equivalents	u, v, w
Other
Other letters commonly used with	u, v, w

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 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 information
Preview	Ꝩ		ꝩ		ᚹ		Ƿ		ƿ
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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