U+16E0 "ᛠ" Runic Letter Ear Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᛠ
U+16E0 "ᛠ" Runic Letter Ear is a character from the Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet known as the Futhorc, where it represents a sound and a word meaning "earth" or "grave." Its name "Ear" is derived from the Old English word for "earth" or "dust," and it is typically used in later Anglo-Saxon inscriptions, often appearing in place of the earlier rune *Eoh or as a variant for the diphthong sound /eo/ or /ea/. This rune is one of the later additions to the runic set, reflecting the evolution of the Futhorc during the early medieval period in England.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16E0 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Runic Letter Ear |
| Block | Runic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᛠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᛠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9B 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x16E0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000016E0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u16e0 |