What ꝩ means
It was an Old Norse letter whose value varied by text. Vend is the open-topped Norse form descended from wynn (Ƿ), an earlier Old English letter with a runic connection. In medieval Old Norse writing from Iceland and Norway, it covered sounds later spellings wrote with the Latin letters u, v, or w; no single modern letter always matches it.
Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian texts used vend until ca. 1300. Manuscripts vary in their spelling, so the letter did not belong to one standardized alphabet.
How do I type the vend letter?
Enter UA769 with your system’s Unicode input method.
As of 2026-09-12, Word on Windows accepts A769 followed by AltX; macOS Unicode Hex Input accepts OptionA769; GNOME accepts CtrlShiftU, then a769 and Enter. The character's appearance depends on the active font.
Can I use vend instead of v?
Use vend only when preserving a historical spelling or edition. Its value varied by manuscript and period, so inserting it into modern words can misrepresent the source.
A later Old Norse dictionary describes v before r in forms such as v-rungu as the “ancient use of vend.” That label refers to an older convention no longer current in West Nordic speech.
Historical and specialist; in modern text, it signals preservation of an older spelling or editorial convention.
In some fonts, vend can resemble Latin y; check the surrounding historical spelling before identifying it.
Who writes ꝩ
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does vend show as a box?
It usually means the active font has no glyph for ꝩ. The text can still contain the character; a font that supports vend will show its design.
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How to type or find ꝩ
- Also called
- vend · vend letter
- Search it as
- Old Norse vend · vend Unicode · vend keyboard
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ꝩ\A769Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.