U+16B7 Runic Letter Gebo Gyfu G
U+16B7 was added to Unicode in version 3.0 (1999). It belongs to the block Runic in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Runic script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+16B7 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Gyfu is the name for the g-rune ᚷ in the Anglo-Saxon rune poem, meaning ‘gift’ or ‘generosity’:
The corresponding letter of the Gothic alphabet is 𐌲 g, called giba. The same rune also appears in the Elder Futhark, with a suggested Proto-Germanic name *gebô ‘gift’. J. H. Looijenga speculates that the rune is directly derived from Latin Χ, the pronunciation of which may have been similar to Germanic g in the 1st century, e.g., Gothic *reihs compared to Latin rex (as opposed to the Etruscan alphabet, where /𐌗 had a value of [s]).
The gyfu rune is sometimes used as a symbol within modern mysticism, particularly amongst those interested in Celtic mythology. It’s described, for example, in the book The Runic Tarot as a representation of the giving-receiving balance in friendships.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 5815 |
| UTF-8 | E1 9A B7 |
| UTF-16 | 16 B7 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 16 B7 |
| URL-Quoted | %E1%9A%B7 |
| HTML hex reference | ᚷ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | áš· |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 3.0 (1999) | |
| RUNIC LETTER GEBO GYFU G | |
| — | |
| Runic | |
| Other Letter | |
| Runic | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Runic Letter Gebo Gyfu G | |
| ✘ | |
| Runic Letter Gebo Gyfu G | |
| Runic Letter Gebo Gyfu G | |
| ✘ | |
| Runic Letter Gebo Gyfu G | |
| Runic Letter Gebo Gyfu G | |
| Runic Letter Gebo Gyfu G | |
| Runic Letter Gebo Gyfu G | |
| Runic Letter Gebo Gyfu G | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
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| Runic Letter Gebo Gyfu G | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
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| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
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| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Runic Letter Gebo Gyfu G | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Runic Letter Gebo Gyfu G | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Runic Letter Gebo Gyfu G | |
| R |