U+16D5 "ᛕ" Runic Letter Open-P Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᛕ
U+16D5 "ᛕ" Runic Letter Open-P is a glyph from the Runic script, specifically part of the Anglo-Saxon or Old Norse runic tradition, where it represents a variant or open form of the 'p' rune, known as "Peorð" in the Old English rune poem. This character is encoded in the Runic block of Unicode and is used in historical and reconstructed contexts for writing early Germanic languages, with its distinct open shape differentiating it from the more common closed form of the rune. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars, linguists, and enthusiasts can digitally represent this specific runic symbol for academic study, typography, or cultural preservation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16D5 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Runic Letter Open-P |
| Block | Runic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᛕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᛕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9B 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x16D5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000016D5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u16d5 |