U+A768 "Ꝩ" Latin Capital Letter Vend Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꝩ
U+A768 "Ꝩ" Latin Capital Letter Vend is a historical typographic symbol derived from medieval Nordic and Old English scripts, where it represented a sound similar to the modern "w" or the voiced labiovelar approximant. This letter was used primarily in early Scandinavian languages, such as Old Norse and its descendants, as well as in Old English manuscripts, often functioning as a variant of the rune ᚹ (wynn) or as a distinct character in certain orthographic systems. Today, it is recognized primarily for its scholarly and paleographic value, appearing in academic texts and font sets that aim to preserve or reconstruct ancient writing traditions, and it belongs to the Latin Extended-D block within the Unicode standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A768 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Vend |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꝩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꝩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9D 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA768 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A768 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua768 |
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 | "ꝩ" U+A769 Latin Small Letter Vend |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꝩ" U+A769 Latin Small Letter Vend |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꝩ" U+A769 Latin Small Letter Vend |
| Case Folding | "ꝩ" U+A769 Latin Small Letter Vend |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꝩ" U+A769 Latin Small Letter Vend |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꝩ" U+A769 Latin Small Letter Vend |
| 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 |