U+16DF Runic Letter Othalan Ethel O
U+16DF was added in Unicode version 3.0 in 1999. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Runic script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+16DF forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Othala (ᛟ), also known as ēðel and odal, is a rune that represents the o and œ phonemes in the Elder Futhark and the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc writing systems respectively. Its name is derived from the reconstructed Proto-Germanic *ōþala- "heritage; inheritance, inherited estate". As it does not occur in Younger Futhark, it disappears from the Scandinavian record around the 8th century, however its usage continued in England into the 11th century, where it was sometimes further used in manuscripts as a shorthand for the word ēðel ("homeland"), similar to how other runes were sometimes used at the time.
As with other symbols used historically in Europe such as the swastika and Celtic cross, othala has been appropriated by far-right groups such as the Nazi party and neo-Nazis, who have used it to represent ideas like Aryan heritage, a usage that is wholly modern and not attested in any ancient or medieval source. The rune also continues to be used in non-racist contexts, both in Heathenry and in wider popular culture such as the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and video games.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 5855 |
UTF-8 | E1 9B 9F |
UTF-16 | 16 DF |
UTF-32 | 00 00 16 DF |
URL-Quoted | %E1%9B%9F |
HTML hex reference | ᛟ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ᛟ |
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 34 B5 39 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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3.0 (1999) | |
RUNIC LETTER OTHALAN ETHEL O | |
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0 | |
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0 | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
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Yes | |
Yes | |
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Other Letter | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
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neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
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not a number | |
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R |