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Glyph for U+16C7
Source: Noto Sans Runic

U+16C7 Runic Letter Iwaz Eoh

U+16C7 was added to Unicode in version 3.0 (1999). It belongs to the block U+16A0 to U+16FF Runic in the U+0000 to U+FFFF 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. In text U+16C7 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:

Eiwaz or Eihaz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the rune ᛇ, coming from a word for "yew". Two variants of the word are reconstructed for Proto-Germanic, *īhaz (2haz, from Proto-Indo-European *eikos), continued in Old English as ēoh (also īh), and *īwaz (2waz, from Proto-Indo-European *eiwos), continued in Old English as īw (whence English yew). The latter is possibly an early loan from the Celtic, compare Gaulish ivos, Breton ivin, Welsh ywen, Old Irish ēo. The common spelling of the rune's name, "Eihwaz", combines the two variants; strictly based on the Old English evidence, a spelling "Eihaz" would be more proper.

Following the convention of Wolfgang Krause, the rune's standard transliteration today is ï, though this designation is somewhat arbitrary as the rune's purpose and origin is still not well understood. Elmer Antonsen and Leo Connolly theorized that the rune originally stood for a Proto-Germanic vowel lost by the time of the earliest known runic inscriptions, though they put forth different vowels (Antonsen put forth [æː] while Connolly put forth [ɨ(ː)]). Ottar Grønvik proposed [ç]. Tineke Looijenga postulates the rune was originally a bindrune of ᛁ and ᛃ, having the sound value of [ji(ː)] or [i(ː)j].

The rune survives in the Anglo-Saxon futhorc as ᛇ Ēoh or Īh "yew" (note that ᛖ eoh "horse" has a short diphthong). In futhorc inscriptions Ēoh appears as both a vowel around /iː/, and as a consonant around [x] and [ç]. As a vowel, Ēoh shows up in jïslheard (ᛡᛇᛋᛚᚻᛠᚱᛞ) on the Dover Stone. As a consonant, Ēoh shows up in almeïttig (ᚪᛚᛗᛖᛇᛏᛏᛁᚷ) on the Ruthwell Cross.

The Anglo-Saxon rune poem reads:

Eoh bẏþ utan unsmeþe treoƿ,
heard hrusan fæst, hẏrde fẏres,
ƿẏrtrumun underƿreþẏd, ƿẏn on eþle.
The yew is a tree with rough bark,
hard and fast in the earth, supported by its roots,
a guardian of flame and a joy on native land.

Representations

System Representation
5831
UTF-8 E1 9B 87
UTF-16 16 C7
UTF-32 00 00 16 C7
URL-Quoted %E1%9B%87
HTML hex reference ᛇ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ᛇ

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 3.0 (1999)
Unicode Name RUNIC LETTER IWAZ EOH
Unicode 1 Name
Block Runic
General Category Other Letter
Script Runic
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+16C7 Runic Letter Iwaz Eoh
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+16C7 Runic Letter Iwaz Eoh
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+16C7 Runic Letter Iwaz Eoh
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+16C7 Runic Letter Iwaz Eoh
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+16C7 Runic Letter Iwaz Eoh
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+16C7 Runic Letter Iwaz Eoh
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+16C7 Runic Letter Iwaz Eoh
Case Folding Glyph for U+16C7 Runic Letter Iwaz Eoh
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+16C7 Runic Letter Iwaz Eoh
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+16C7 Runic Letter Iwaz Eoh
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+16C7 Runic Letter Iwaz Eoh
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+16C7 Runic Letter Iwaz Eoh
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+16C7 Runic Letter Iwaz Eoh
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R