U+16B9 "ᚹ" Runic Letter Wunjo Wynn W Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᚹ
U+16B9 "ᚹ" Runic Letter Wunjo Wynn W is a character from the Runic block used to represent the w sound in various Germanic runic alphabets, such as the Elder Futhark, where it is called *wunjō, meaning "joy" or "bliss." In the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, it is known as wynn, and it was adopted into the Old English Latin alphabet as the letter Ƿ (wynn) before being replaced by the modern letter W. Its shape resembles a vertical line with two upward slanted branches, and it appears in historical inscriptions on artifacts like the Franks Casket, symbolizing concepts of happiness and prosperity in runic lore.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16B9 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Runic Letter Wunjo Wynn W |
| Block | Runic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x16B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000016B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u16b9 |