U+01F7 "Ƿ" Latin Capital Letter Wynn Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01F7 "Ƿ" Latin Capital Letter Wynn is a letter derived from the runic alphabet that was historically used in Old English and early Middle English texts to represent the sound /w/, before being replaced by the modern letter "W". It appears as a distinctive symbol resembling a lowercase "p" with an angular top, and its inclusion in Unicode allows for accurate digital representation of historical manuscripts and linguistic research, preserving a key element of early Germanic writing systems. This character is part of the Latin Extended-B block and is primarily utilized in scholarly contexts for transcription and study of ancient English documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01F7 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Wynn |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ƿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ƿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01F7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001F7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01f7 |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ƿ" U+01BF Latin Letter Wynn |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ƿ" U+01BF Latin Letter Wynn |
| Simple Case Folding | "ƿ" U+01BF Latin Letter Wynn |
| Case Folding | "ƿ" U+01BF Latin Letter Wynn |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ƿ" U+01BF Latin Letter Wynn |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ƿ" U+01BF Latin Letter Wynn |
| 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 | Upper |