U+16F7 "ᛷ" Runic Letter Franks Casket Ac Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᛷ
U+16F7 "ᛷ" Runic Letter Franks Casket Ac is a specialized rune used to represent a rare variant or alternate inscription form found on the Franks Casket, an eighth-century Anglo-Saxon whalebone artifact carved with runic and Latin text. This character, part of the Runic Unicode block, is classified as a "Runic letter" and is specifically designated for scholarly transcription of the ambiguous or disputed rune shapes that appear on the casket's inscriptions. Its inclusion allows digital text to accurately reproduce the unique orthographic features of this historical artifact, which is one of the most important surviving examples of Old English and early Germanic writing and iconography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16F7 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Runic Letter Franks Casket Ac |
| Block | Runic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᛷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᛷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9B 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x16F7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000016F7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u16f7 |