U+A75F "ꝟ" Latin Small Letter V with Diagonal Stroke Unicode Character

U+A75F "ꝟ" Latin Small Letter V with Diagonal Stroke is a typographic variant of the Latin letter V, distinguished by a diagonal line crossing through its body, historically employed as an abbreviation in medieval and early modern scribal shorthand for words like "ver," "vir," or "ve," particularly in Latin manuscripts. This character belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and serves as the lowercase counterpart to U+A75E, the uppercase Latin Capital Letter V with Diagonal Stroke, reflecting a specific calligraphic tradition in Old Norse and Germanic philology. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve the accuracy of textual representations in paleography and historical linguistics.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A75F
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter V with Diagonal Stroke
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA75F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A75F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua75f

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	"Ꝟ" U+A75E Latin Capital Letter V with Diagonal Stroke
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝟ" U+A75E Latin Capital Letter V with Diagonal Stroke
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꝟ" U+A75E Latin Capital Letter V with Diagonal Stroke
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝟ" U+A75E Latin Capital Letter V with Diagonal Stroke
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