U+A769 "ꝩ" Latin Small Letter Vend Unicode Character

U+A769 "ꝩ" Latin Small Letter Vend is a historical letter used in Old Norse, Old English, and medieval Scandinavian manuscripts, where it represented a sound similar to the modern "v" or the voiced "w," often serving as a variant of the letter "wynn" or "v" in early writing systems. It is part of the Latin Extended-D block, designed to support medievalist and philological text encoding, and its uppercase counterpart is U+A768 "Ꝩ" Latin Capital Letter Vend. This character is rarely found in modern usage but is essential for accurately digitizing and analyzing ancient texts from Northern European languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A769
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Vend
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA769
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A769
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua769

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	"Ꝩ" U+A768 Latin Capital Letter Vend
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝩ" U+A768 Latin Capital Letter Vend
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꝩ" U+A768 Latin Capital Letter Vend
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝩ" U+A768 Latin Capital Letter Vend
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