V with diagonal stroke

Letter of the Latin alphabet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

V with diagonal stroke (Ꝟ, ꝟ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from V with the addition of a bar through the left stroke.

Latin letter V with stroke and diagonal stroke
Latin letter V with stroke and diagonal stroke

Usage

This letter is used in medieval texts as an abbreviation for vir, ver, and vere, as in Latin virgo, a maiden, or Portuguese ver, to see, conversa, conversation, or vereador, member of a town council.[1][2]

Computer encodings

Capital and small V with diagonal stroke is encoded in Unicode as of version 5.1, at codepoints U+A75E and U+A75F.[3][4]

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