Vend (letter)

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

Ꝩ
Ꝩ ꝩ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabetic and Logographic
Language of origin	Old Norse language
Sound values	[u] [v] [w] /vɛnd/
In Unicode	U+A768, U+A769
History
Development	ᚹ Ƿ ƿ Ꝩ ꝩ
Time period	~1100 to ~1200
Descendants	None
Sisters	Ƿ ƿ
Transliterations	u, v, w
Other
Associated graphs	u, v, w
Writing direction	Left-to-right
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

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