V with diagonal stroke

V with diagonal stroke (Ꝟ, ꝟ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from V with the addition of a bar through the left stroke.

Latin letter V with stroke and diagonal stroke

Usage

This letter is used in medieval texts as an abbreviation for vir, ver, and vere, as in Latin virgo, a maiden, or Portuguese ver, to see, conversa, conversation, or vereador, member of a town council.[1][2]

Computer encodings

Capital and small V with diagonal stroke is encoded in Unicode as of version 5.1, at codepoints U+A75E and U+A75F.[3][4]

gollark: It definitely won't help people who aren't here, for one thing.
gollark: I mean, I *guessed* what I thought people might see as it, I don't actually know.
gollark: Also, I don't think anyone ever explained what the problem they were trying to solve here was.
gollark: I mean, transparency in operations is generally considered a good thing.
gollark: Well, not *all* the possible problems, but it was claimed that the issues with actually demonstrating pings or whatever would just be solved with no explanation whatsoever.

References
  1. "Proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS" (PDF). 30 January 2006. International Organization for Standardization. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  2. Cappelli, Lexicon Abbreviaturarum, p. 383.
  3. "Unicode Character 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V WITH DIAGONAL STROKE' (U+A75E)". Fileformat.info. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  4. "Unicode Character 'LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH DIAGONAL STROKE' (U+A75F)". Fileformat.info. Retrieved 4 March 2018.

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