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

Unicode Version 18.0

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U+A75F "" 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
Name
Latin Small Letter V with Diagonal Stroke

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