U+16AA "ᚪ" Runic Letter Ac A Unicode Character

U+16AA "ᚪ" Runic Letter Ac A is a character from the Runic block, representing the rune known as "ac" or "a" in the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, an extended runic alphabet used for writing Old English and Old Frisian. This rune corresponds to the vowel sound /a/ and is derived from the Elder Futhark rune Ansuz, which it later replaced in the Anglo-Saxon tradition. Its name "ac" means "oak" in Old English, linking the character to concepts of strength and endurance in Germanic culture. The character is encoded in Unicode to support historical and linguistic studies, as well as digital representations of runic inscriptions.