U+A761 "ꝡ" Latin Small Letter Vy Unicode Character

U+A761 "ꝡ" Latin Small Letter Vy is a medieval Latin letter used primarily in Old Norse and Old English texts, representing a sound similar to a voiced bilabial fricative or the English "v" sound, often functioning as a variant or ligature of "u" and "v" in early manuscripts. It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block, which contains characters for historical and scholarly orthographies, and its uppercase counterpart is U+A760 "Ꝡ" Latin Capital Letter Vy. This letter appears in philological works, such as editions of Norse sagas or Anglo-Saxon documents, to accurately transcribe the original script of these languages before standardized spelling was adopted.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A761
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Vy
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ꝡ
HTML Hex Encoding	ꝡ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9D 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA761
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A761
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua761

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	"Ꝡ" U+A760 Latin Capital Letter Vy
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝡ" U+A760 Latin Capital Letter Vy
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꝡ" U+A760 Latin Capital Letter Vy
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝡ" U+A760 Latin Capital Letter Vy
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