What ᛩ means
It appears in manuscript rune rows, not as a standard ancient letter.
An eighth-century manuscript rune row includes a runic Q-equivalent; a tenth-century English manuscript lists rune names and transliterations. Such rows present the alphabet for reference, not proof of common inscriptional use.
It belongs to English futhorc, the Old English runic alphabet, where scribes adapted signs to complete an alphabet row.
Specialist, antiquarian, or decorative; without context, its Q value may not be obvious.
One rune row does not prove every runic alphabet used this Q.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does ᛩ 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.
How to type ᛩ
ᛩ\16E9Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.