U+16E3 "ᛣ" Runic Letter Calc Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᛣ
U+16E3 "ᛣ" Runic Letter Calc is a specific character within the Runic block, representing a letter in the extended runic alphabet used to transliterate the Old English and Old Norse sound for the voiceless velar plosive, essentially the 'k' sound, as found in words like "calc" meaning "chalk" or "cup." This rune is part of the Anglo-Saxon futhorc, an expanded version of the older Germanic runic system, and it appears in historical inscriptions and manuscripts, such as the Codex Vindobonensis, where it serves both a phonetic and a symbolic purpose in recording early medieval languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16E3 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Runic Letter Calc |
| Block | Runic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᛣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᛣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9B 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x16E3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000016E3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u16e3 |