U+01F7 "Ƿ" Latin Capital Letter Wynn Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+01F7 "Ƿ" Latin Capital Letter Wynn is a letter derived from the runic alphabet that was historically used in Old English and early Middle English texts to represent the sound /w/, before being replaced by the modern letter "W". It appears as a distinctive symbol resembling a lowercase "p" with an angular top, and its inclusion in Unicode allows for accurate digital representation of historical manuscripts and linguistic research, preserving a key element of early Germanic writing systems. This character is part of the Latin Extended-B block and is primarily utilized in scholarly contexts for transcription and study of ancient English documents.
General Properties
Code Point
U+01F7
Name
Latin Capital Letter Wynn
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ƿ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ƿ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xC7 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding
0x01F7
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000001F7
C/C++/Java Escape
\u01f7
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Latin