U+16D1 "ᛑ" Runic Letter D Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᛑ
U+16D1 "ᛑ" Runic Letter D is a character from the Elder Futhark runic alphabet, specifically representing the rune known as *Dagaz, which is associated with the sound "d" and symbolically linked to concepts of daylight, awakening, and transformation. This rune's name, meaning "day" in Proto-Germanic, reflects its historical use in inscriptions and magical contexts from roughly the 2nd to 8th centuries CE throughout Scandinavia and Germanic regions. In modern digital typography, it is included in the Unicode Runic block to enable accurate representation and study of ancient Germanic scripts, maintaining its visual form as a distinct angular symbol.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16D1 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Runic Letter D |
| Block | Runic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᛑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᛑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9B 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x16D1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000016D1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u16d1 |