U+16E8 "ᛨ" Runic Letter Icelandic-Yr Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᛨ
U+16E8 "ᛨ" Runic Letter Icelandic-Yr is a runic symbol belonging to the Elder Futhark and later runic alphabets, specifically representing a variant of the Yr rune used in medieval Icelandic inscriptions. Its shape resembles an arrow or a slanting line, and it is associated with the phonetic value of a palatal or velar sound, often transcribed as "y" or "ʒ." This character is part of the Runic block in Unicode, serving as a historical and linguistic tool for scholars and enthusiasts working with Old Norse or Icelandic texts, where it appears in manuscripts and runestones to denote a distinct sound separate from the more common Yr rune (ᛦ).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16E8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Runic Letter Icelandic-Yr |
| Block | Runic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᛨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᛨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9B 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x16E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000016E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u16e8 |