Vend (Ꝩ, ꝩ) is a letter of Old Norse. It was used to represent the sounds /u/, /v/, and /w/.[citation needed]

It was related to and probably derived from the Old English letter Wynn of the Runic alphabet (ᚹ) and later the Latin alphabet (Ƿ ƿ), except that the bowl was open on the top, not being connected to the stem, which made it somewhat resemble a letter Y. It was eventually replaced with v or u for most writings.

Vend in Unicode and HTML entities

The upper and lowercase Vend were standardized in April 2008 as part of the Latin Extended-D block of Unicode 5.1[1]

Character information
Preview Ꝩ ꝩ
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER VEND LATIN SMALL LETTER VEND
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 42856 U+A768 42857 U+A769
UTF-8 234 157 168 EA 9D A8 234 157 169 EA 9D A9
Numeric character reference Ꝩ Ꝩ ꝩ ꝩ

References

  1. ^ "Unicode Utilities: Character Properties". util.unicode.org. Retrieved 2022-11-03.