U+16F3 "ᛳ" Runic Letter Oo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᛳ
U+16F3 "ᛳ" Runic Letter Oo is a lesser known rune from the extended Anglo Saxon Futhorc, representing the sound of a long or diphthongal "o" as in the Old English word "moon." This character is part of the Runic block in Unicode and is used in historical linguistic contexts to accurately transcribe early medieval inscriptions and manuscripts from Anglo Saxon England. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard helps preserve and digitize the written heritage of the runic tradition, allowing scholars and enthusiasts to represent this specific phoneme in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16F3 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Runic Letter Oo |
| Block | Runic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᛳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᛳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9B 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x16F3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000016F3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u16f3 |