U+16AD "ᚭ" Runic Letter Short-Twig-Oss O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16AD "ᚭ" Runic Letter Short-Twig-Oss O is a glyph from the Younger Futhark, a runic alphabet used primarily in Scandinavia during the Viking Age and into the Middle Ages. This specific rune represents the sound /o/ and is a variant of the Othala or Oss rune, associated with the concept of inheritance or divine speech in Old Norse tradition. Its angular, simplified form characterizes the "short-twig" style of runic writing, which was a more concise and practical script often used for everyday inscriptions on wood or bone, in contrast to the more elaborate "long-branch" runes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AD |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Runic Letter Short-Twig-Oss O |
| Block | Runic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x16AD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000016AD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u16ad |