U+01BF "ƿ" Latin Letter Wynn Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ƿ
U+01BF "ƿ" Latin Letter Wynn is a historical letter used in Old English and early Middle English, derived from the runic character ᚹ to represent the voiced labial-velar approximant sound, like the modern English "w". It was commonly employed in manuscripts before being gradually replaced by the digraph "uu" and ultimately the letter "w" during the Middle English period, and today it appears primarily in philological and paleographic contexts for medieval text reproduction and linguistic study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01BF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Letter Wynn |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ƿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ƿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01BF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001BF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01bf |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ƿ" U+01F7 Latin Capital Letter Wynn |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ƿ" U+01F7 Latin Capital Letter Wynn |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ƿ" U+01F7 Latin Capital Letter Wynn |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ƿ" U+01F7 Latin Capital Letter Wynn |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Lower |