U+16F7 "ᛷ" Runic Letter Franks Casket Ac Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Runic
Script Extensions Runic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter