The Runic range was introduced with version 3.0 of the Unicode Standard. The characters (runes) were designed for ease of carving into wood or stone and were used in ancient Scandinavia and other parts of Europe. You can find out more about Runic at The Runic Journey site.
Microsoft Windows incorporates support for Runic Unicode from Windows 7 onwards.
The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Aboriginal Serif, ALPHABETUM Unicode, BabelStone Moon Runes, Cardo, Caslon, Chrysanthi Unicode, Code2000, Dialekt Uni, EversonMono, Fixedsys Excelsior, Free Idg Serif, Free Monospaced, Hnias, Junicode, LeedsUni, Quivira, Segoe UI Symbol (in Windows 7), Sun-ExtA and TITUS Cyberbit Basic; in the Macintosh OS X Unicode font Junicode; and in the Unix Unicode font Caslon and ClearlyU.
To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.
If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U16A0.pdf.
Character (decimal) | Decimal | Character (hex) | Hex | Name |
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ᚠ | 5792 | ᚠ | 16A0 | RUNIC LETTER FEHU FEOH FE F |
ᚡ | 5793 | ᚡ | 16A1 | RUNIC LETTER V |
ᚢ | 5794 | ᚢ | 16A2 | RUNIC LETTER URUZ UR U |
ᚣ | 5795 | ᚣ | 16A3 | RUNIC LETTER YR |
ᚤ | 5796 | ᚤ | 16A4 | RUNIC LETTER Y |
ᚥ | 5797 | ᚥ | 16A5 | RUNIC LETTER W |
ᚦ | 5798 | ᚦ | 16A6 | RUNIC LETTER THURISAZ THURS THORN |
ᚧ | 5799 | ᚧ | 16A7 | RUNIC LETTER ETH |
ᚨ | 5800 | ᚨ | 16A8 | RUNIC LETTER ANSUZ A |
ᚩ | 5801 | ᚩ | 16A9 | RUNIC LETTER OS O |
ᚪ | 5802 | ᚪ | 16AA | RUNIC LETTER AC A |
ᚫ | 5803 | ᚫ | 16AB | RUNIC LETTER AESC |
ᚬ | 5804 | ᚬ | 16AC | RUNIC LETTER LONG-BRANCH-OSS O |
ᚭ | 5805 | ᚭ | 16AD | RUNIC LETTER SHORT-TWIG-OSS O |
ᚮ | 5806 | ᚮ | 16AE | RUNIC LETTER O |
ᚯ | 5807 | ᚯ | 16AF | RUNIC LETTER OE |
ᚰ | 5808 | ᚰ | 16B0 | RUNIC LETTER ON |
ᚱ | 5809 | ᚱ | 16B1 | RUNIC LETTER RAIDO RAD REID R |
ᚲ | 5810 | ᚲ | 16B2 | RUNIC LETTER KAUNA |
ᚳ | 5811 | ᚳ | 16B3 | RUNIC LETTER CEN |
ᚴ | 5812 | ᚴ | 16B4 | RUNIC LETTER KAUN K |
ᚵ | 5813 | ᚵ | 16B5 | RUNIC LETTER G |
ᚶ | 5814 | ᚶ | 16B6 | RUNIC LETTER ENG |
ᚷ | 5815 | ᚷ | 16B7 | RUNIC LETTER GEBO GYFU G |
ᚸ | 5816 | ᚸ | 16B8 | RUNIC LETTER GAR |
ᚹ | 5817 | ᚹ | 16B9 | RUNIC LETTER WUNJO WYNN W |
ᚺ | 5818 | ᚺ | 16BA | RUNIC LETTER HAGLAZ H |
ᚻ | 5819 | ᚻ | 16BB | RUNIC LETTER HAEGL H |
ᚼ | 5820 | ᚼ | 16BC | RUNIC LETTER LONG-BRANCH-HAGALL H |
ᚽ | 5821 | ᚽ | 16BD | RUNIC LETTER SHORT-TWIG-HAGALL H |
ᚾ | 5822 | ᚾ | 16BE | RUNIC LETTER NAUDIZ NYD NAUD N |
ᚿ | 5823 | ᚿ | 16BF | RUNIC LETTER SHORT-TWIG-NAUD N |
ᛀ | 5824 | ᛀ | 16C0 | RUNIC LETTER DOTTED-N |
ᛁ | 5825 | ᛁ | 16C1 | RUNIC LETTER ISAZ IS ISS I |
ᛂ | 5826 | ᛂ | 16C2 | RUNIC LETTER E |
ᛃ | 5827 | ᛃ | 16C3 | RUNIC LETTER JERAN J |
ᛄ | 5828 | ᛄ | 16C4 | RUNIC LETTER GER |
ᛅ | 5829 | ᛅ | 16C5 | RUNIC LETTER LONG-BRANCH-AR AE |
ᛆ | 5830 | ᛆ | 16C6 | RUNIC LETTER SHORT-TWIG-AR A |
ᛇ | 5831 | ᛇ | 16C7 | RUNIC LETTER IWAZ EOH |
ᛈ | 5832 | ᛈ | 16C8 | RUNIC LETTER PERTHO PEORTH P |
ᛉ | 5833 | ᛉ | 16C9 | RUNIC LETTER ALGIZ EOLHX |
ᛊ | 5834 | ᛊ | 16CA | RUNIC LETTER SOWILO S |
ᛋ | 5835 | ᛋ | 16CB | RUNIC LETTER SIGEL LONG-BRANCH-SOL S |
ᛌ | 5836 | ᛌ | 16CC | RUNIC LETTER SHORT-TWIG-SOL S |
ᛍ | 5837 | ᛍ | 16CD | RUNIC LETTER C |
ᛎ | 5838 | ᛎ | 16CE | RUNIC LETTER Z |
ᛏ | 5839 | ᛏ | 16CF | RUNIC LETTER TIWAZ TIR TYR T |
ᛐ | 5840 | ᛐ | 16D0 | RUNIC LETTER SHORT-TWIG-TYR T |
ᛑ | 5841 | ᛑ | 16D1 | RUNIC LETTER D |
ᛒ | 5842 | ᛒ | 16D2 | RUNIC LETTER BERKANAN BEORC BJARKAN B |
ᛓ | 5843 | ᛓ | 16D3 | RUNIC LETTER SHORT-TWIG-BJARKAN B |
ᛔ | 5844 | ᛔ | 16D4 | RUNIC LETTER DOTTED-P |
ᛕ | 5845 | ᛕ | 16D5 | RUNIC LETTER OPEN-P |
ᛖ | 5846 | ᛖ | 16D6 | RUNIC LETTER EHWAZ EH E |
ᛗ | 5847 | ᛗ | 16D7 | RUNIC LETTER MANNAZ MAN M |
ᛘ | 5848 | ᛘ | 16D8 | RUNIC LETTER LONG-BRANCH-MADR M |
ᛙ | 5849 | ᛙ | 16D9 | RUNIC LETTER SHORT-TWIG-MADR M |
ᛚ | 5850 | ᛚ | 16DA | RUNIC LETTER LAUKAZ LAGU LOGR L |
ᛛ | 5851 | ᛛ | 16DB | RUNIC LETTER DOTTED-L |
ᛜ | 5852 | ᛜ | 16DC | RUNIC LETTER INGWAZ |
ᛝ | 5853 | ᛝ | 16DD | RUNIC LETTER ING |
ᛞ | 5854 | ᛞ | 16DE | RUNIC LETTER DAGAZ DAEG D |
ᛟ | 5855 | ᛟ | 16DF | RUNIC LETTER OTHALAN ETHEL O |
ᛠ | 5856 | ᛠ | 16E0 | RUNIC LETTER EAR |
ᛡ | 5857 | ᛡ | 16E1 | RUNIC LETTER IOR |
ᛢ | 5858 | ᛢ | 16E2 | RUNIC LETTER CWEORTH |
ᛣ | 5859 | ᛣ | 16E3 | RUNIC LETTER CALC |
ᛤ | 5860 | ᛤ | 16E4 | RUNIC LETTER CEALC |
ᛥ | 5861 | ᛥ | 16E5 | RUNIC LETTER STAN |
ᛦ | 5862 | ᛦ | 16E6 | RUNIC LETTER LONG-BRANCH-YR |
ᛧ | 5863 | ᛧ | 16E7 | RUNIC LETTER SHORT-TWIG-YR |
ᛨ | 5864 | ᛨ | 16E8 | RUNIC LETTER ICELANDIC-YR |
ᛩ | 5865 | ᛩ | 16E9 | RUNIC LETTER Q |
ᛪ | 5866 | ᛪ | 16EA | RUNIC LETTER X |
᛫ | 5867 | ᛫ | 16EB | RUNIC SINGLE PUNCTUATION |
᛬ | 5868 | ᛬ | 16EC | RUNIC MULTIPLE PUNCTUATION |
᛭ | 5869 | ᛭ | 16ED | RUNIC CROSS PUNCTUATION |
ᛮ | 5870 | ᛮ | 16EE | RUNIC ARLAUG SYMBOL |
ᛯ | 5871 | ᛯ | 16EF | RUNIC TVIMADUR SYMBOL |
ᛰ | 5872 | ᛰ | 16F0 | RUNIC BELGTHOR SYMBOL |
ᛱ | 5873 | ᛱ | 16F1 | RUNIC LETTER K |
ᛲ | 5874 | ᛲ | 16F2 | RUNIC LETTER SH |
ᛳ | 5875 | ᛳ | 16F3 | RUNIC LETTER OO |
ᛴ | 5876 | ᛴ | 16F4 | RUNIC LETTER FRANKS CASKET OS |
ᛵ | 5877 | ᛵ | 16F5 | RUNIC LETTER FRANKS CASKET IS |
ᛶ | 5878 | ᛶ | 16F6 | RUNIC LETTER FRANKS CASKET EH |
ᛷ | 5879 | ᛷ | 16F7 | RUNIC LETTER FRANKS CASKET AC |
ᛸ | 5880 | ᛸ | 16F8 | RUNIC LETTER FRANKS CASKET AESC |
Copyright © 1999–2014 Alan Wood
The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 7.0.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2014 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode ftp site (ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in October 2014.
Created 4th October 1999 Last updated 28th October 2014