Vend (letter)

Capital Vend (left), lowercase Vend (right)

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

It was related to and probably derived from the Old English letter Wynn (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

Character	Ꝩ		ꝩ		ᚹ		Ƿ		ƿ
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER VEND		LATIN SMALL LETTER VEND		RUNIC LETTER WUNJO WYNN W		LATIN CAPITAL LETTER WYNN		LATIN LETTER WYNN
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	42856	U+A768	42857	U+A769	5817	U+16B9	503	U+01F7	447	U+01BF
UTF-8	234 157 168	EA 9D A8	234 157 169	EA 9D A9	225 154 185	E1 9A B9	199 183	C7 B7	198 191	C6 BF
Numeric character reference	Ꝩ	Ꝩ	ꝩ	ꝩ	ᚹ	ᚹ	Ƿ	Ƿ	ƿ	ƿ