U+A75E "Ꝟ" Latin Capital Letter V with Diagonal Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꝟ
U+A75E "Ꝟ" Latin Capital Letter V with Diagonal Stroke is a historical typographic variant of the standard Latin letter V, distinguished by a diagonal line cutting through its shape from upper left to lower right. This character was primarily used in medieval and early modern Latin manuscripts and printed texts as an abbreviation or scribal shorthand, often representing the Latin word "vel" (meaning "or") or serving as a space-saving device in dense writing. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the accurate digital representation of historical documents, allowing scholars and enthusiasts to preserve the typographic conventions of earlier eras without resorting to modern substitutions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A75E |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter V with Diagonal Stroke |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꝟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꝟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9D 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA75E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A75E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua75e |
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 | "ꝟ" U+A75F Latin Small Letter V with Diagonal Stroke |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꝟ" U+A75F Latin Small Letter V with Diagonal Stroke |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꝟ" U+A75F Latin Small Letter V with Diagonal Stroke |
| Case Folding | "ꝟ" U+A75F Latin Small Letter V with Diagonal Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꝟ" U+A75F Latin Small Letter V with Diagonal Stroke |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꝟ" U+A75F Latin Small Letter V with Diagonal Stroke |
| 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 |