U+16AF "ᚯ" Runic Letter Oe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16AF "ᚯ" Runic Letter Oe is a character from the Runic block, specifically used in the Old Norse and early Scandinavian Younger Futhark runic alphabets to represent a vowel sound similar to the long ö or oe in modern Germanic languages. This rune, sometimes called "Oss" with a specific phonetic shift, appears in historical inscriptions and manuscripts, typically denoting a diphthong or rounded front vowel that later evolved in Icelandic and other North Germanic languages. Its encoding in Unicode allows for digital representation and study of ancient runic texts, preserving a linguistic artifact from the Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AF |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Runic Letter Oe |
| Block | Runic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x16AF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000016AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u16af |