U+16D9 "ᛙ" Runic Letter Short-Twig-Madr M Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16D9 "ᛙ" Runic Letter Short-Twig-Madr M is a glyph from the Younger Futhark runic alphabet, specifically representing the simplified "Short-Twig" or "Rök" variant of the rune for the sound /m/, which in the Elder Futhark corresponds to the rune *Mannaz, meaning "man" or "human." This rune appears in historical inscriptions from Scandinavia, particularly during the Viking Age, where it was used in a more compact writing style suited for carving on wood or stone. In modern contexts, it is encoded in Unicode to support scholarly and digital representation of Old Norse texts, allowing for accurate transcription of medieval runic artifacts without losing the distinctive short-twig form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16D9 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Runic Letter Short-Twig-Madr M |
| Block | Runic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᛙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᛙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9B 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x16D9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000016D9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u16d9 |