What 𐍂 means
The letter’s name is linked to an older Germanic word for “cart.” A ninth-century list of Gothic letter names records this form as reda; scholars connect it with reconstructed *raidō. The asterisk marks a form inferred by comparing related languages.
That history explains the name, not the letter’s job: in Gothic words, 𐍂 represents r, not “cart.”
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Who writes 𐍂
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Related characters
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Greek Capital Letter Rho
Greek rho is the Greek letter for r and shares 𐍂’s alphabetic position. It is a useful historical comparison because the Gothic alphabet follows Greek models, but the two characters belong to separate scripts.
Runic Letter Raido Rad Reid R
This is the r-rune of the Elder Futhark, an older Germanic runic alphabet. Scholars have proposed it as a possible influence on Gothic 𐍂’s shape; the origin of individual Gothic letter forms is disputed.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𐍂 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Gothic block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 𐍂
- Also called
- reda
- Search it as
- Gothic r · Gothic raida · Gothic reda · Gothic alphabet r
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𐍂CSS
\10342Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𐍂
HTML hex
𐍂
CSS content
content: "\10342";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%90%8D%82
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On screen
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Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.