Ꝩ
Ꝩ ꝩ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabetic and Logographic
Language of origin	Old Norse language
Phonetic usage	[u] [v] [w] /vɛnd/
Unicode codepoint	U+A768, U+A769
History
Development	ᚹ Ƿ ƿ Ꝩ ꝩ
Time period	~800 to ~1200
Descendants	None
Sisters	Ƿ ƿ
Transliteration equivalents	u, v, w
Other
Other letters commonly used with	u, v, w
Writing direction	Left-to-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 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]

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