U+16C0 "ᛀ" Runic Letter Dotted-N Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᛀ
U+16C0 "ᛀ" Runic Letter Dotted-N is a variant of the standard runic N (ᚾ) that appears in the medieval runic alphabet, specifically used in later inscriptions and manuscripts from Scandinavia, where a dot or diacritic was added to the base rune to distinguish it from similar shapes or to denote a specific phonological value, often representing a palatalized or more articulated nasal sound in Old Norse or its medieval descendants. This character is part of the Runic block in the Unicode standard and is categorized as a phonetic modifier, reflecting the evolving writing practices of runic adaptation after the Viking Age.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16C0 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Runic Letter Dotted-N |
| Block | Runic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᛀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᛀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9B 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x16C0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000016C0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u16c0 |