What ᛇ means
The Old English name means “yew.”
Elder Futhark is the early 24-rune alphabet; *eihwaz is reconstructed. Old English sources give eoh or ih, “yew.” Anglo-Saxons adapted runes to write Old English, and this rune’s sound values varied.
The Kylver rune row in Sweden (fifth century) is the earliest attestation of ᛇ. Scandinavia dropped it from the shorter Younger Futhark after about 700 CE. Frisian runic yew inscriptions from the first half of the seventh century include a piece interpreted as an amulet. The surviving historical record gives no universal fortune-telling meaning for ᛇ.
Alone, it reads as runic or esoteric rather than everyday writing.
A bare ᛇ leaves the intended tradition unclear; name the reading.
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1Why does ᛇ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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- Also called
- eoh · ih
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- eihwaz meaning · eoh rune · eihwaz tattoo
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ᛇ\16C7Codes and encoding1 code points
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