U+16B0 "ᚰ" Runic Letter On Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᚰ
U+16B0 "ᚰ" Runic Letter On is a rare or possibly conjectural rune from the Younger Futhark, often associated with the sound value of a nasalized "o" or serving as a variant of the letter "Óss." It appears in some runic inscriptions and medieval manuscripts, primarily from Scandinavia, where it was used to represent a specific phonetic nuance in Old Norse. Despite its inclusion in the Unicode standard, its historical usage is debated among scholars, and it is far less common than other runic characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16B0 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Runic Letter On |
| Block | Runic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x16B0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000016B0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u16b0 |