U+1EFC "Ỽ" Latin Capital Letter Middle-Welsh V Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1EFC "Ỽ" Latin Capital Letter Middle-Welsh V is a historical typographic symbol used in the written representation of the Middle Welsh language, particularly in medieval manuscripts and modern scholarly editions of early Welsh texts. This character represents a specific phonetic value, typically a labial consonant sound akin to the modern English "v" or "w," which was distinct from the Latin letter V in the orthography of that period. Its inclusion in Unicode aids linguists, historians, and philologists in accurately encoding and digitally preserving authentic textual artifacts from the Middle Welsh era without relying on makeshift substitutions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EFC |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Middle-Welsh V |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ỽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ỽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBB 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EFC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EFC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1efc |
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 | "ỽ" U+1EFD Latin Small Letter Middle-Welsh V |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ỽ" U+1EFD Latin Small Letter Middle-Welsh V |
| Simple Case Folding | "ỽ" U+1EFD Latin Small Letter Middle-Welsh V |
| Case Folding | "ỽ" U+1EFD Latin Small Letter Middle-Welsh V |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ỽ" U+1EFD Latin Small Letter Middle-Welsh V |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ỽ" U+1EFD Latin Small Letter Middle-Welsh V |
| 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 |