U+16DA Runic Letter Laukaz Lagu Logr L
U+16DA 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+16DA forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 4 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
*Laguz or *Laukaz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the l-rune ᛚ, *laguz meaning "water" or "lake" and *laukaz meaning "leek". In the Anglo-Saxon rune poem, it is called lagu "ocean". In the Younger Futhark, the rune is called lögr "waterfall" in Icelandic and logr "water" in Norse.
The name of the corresponding Gothic letter (𐌻, l) is attested as laaz in the Codex Vindobonensis 795; a normalized (Ulfilan) Gothic form *lagus is thought to underlie this unconventional spelling.
The rune is identical in shape to the letter l in the Raetic alphabet.
The "leek" hypothesis is based not on the rune poems, but rather on early inscriptions where the rune has been hypothesized to abbreviate *laukaz, a symbol of fertility, see the Bülach fibula.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 5850 |
UTF-8 | E1 9B 9A |
UTF-16 | 16 DA |
UTF-32 | 00 00 16 DA |
URL-Quoted | %E1%9B%9A |
HTML hex reference | ᛚ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ᛚ |
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 34 B5 34 |
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Complete Record
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3.0 (1999) | |
RUNIC LETTER LAUKAZ LAGU LOGR L | |
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