U+16D6 Runic Letter Ehwaz Eh E
U+16D6 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+16D6 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
*Ehwaz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the Elder Futhark e rune ᛖ, meaning "horse" (cognate to Latin equus, Gaulish epos, Tocharian B yakwe, Sanskrit aśva, Avestan aspa and Old Irish ech). In the Anglo-Saxon futhorc, it is continued as ᛖ eh (properly eoh, but spelled without the diphthong to avoid confusion with ᛇ ēoh "yew").
The Proto-Germanic vowel system was asymmetric and unstable. The difference between the long vowels expressed by ᛖ e and ᛇ ï (sometimes transcribed as *ē1 and *ē2) was lost. The Younger Futhark continues neither, lacking a letter expressing e altogether. The Anglo-Saxon futhorc faithfully preserved all Elder futhorc staves, but assigned new sound values to the redundant ones, futhorc ēoh expressing a diphthong.
In the case of the Gothic alphabet, where the names of the runes were re-applied to letters derived from the Greek alphabet, the letter 𐌴 e was named aíƕus "horse" as well (note that in Gothic orthography, ⟨aí⟩ represents monophthongic /e/).
The rune may have been an original innovation, or it may have been adapted from the classical Latin alphabet's E.
Representations
| System | Representation |
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| Nº | 5846 |
| UTF-8 | E1 9B 96 |
| UTF-16 | 16 D6 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 16 D6 |
| URL-Quoted | %E1%9B%96 |
| HTML hex reference | ᛖ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | á›– |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 34 B5 30 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 3.0 (1999) | |
| RUNIC LETTER EHWAZ EH E | |
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| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
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| ✘︎ | |
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| ✘︎ | |
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