U+16F4 "ᛴ" Runic Letter Franks Casket Os Unicode Character

U+16F4 "ᛴ" Runic Letter Franks Casket Os is a specialized runic symbol derived from the inscription on the early 8th century Franks Casket, a whalebone chest carved with Anglo-Saxon runes and narratives. This particular rune represents a variant of the standard "Os" (ᚩ) rune, which typically signifies the "o" sound, but its distinct shape appears specifically in the casket's text, where it may denote a subtle phonetic difference or a scribal variation. The character is part of the Runic block in Unicode, encoding this rare historical glyph to preserve the unique orthography of one of the most famous artifacts of Old English and Anglo-Saxon art and language.