What ᛫ means
Runes are letters used historically to write Germanic languages, including in Scandinavia and Anglo-Saxon England. They appear in inscriptions on stone, wood and metal, as well as in manuscripts. The runic dot divides the writing rather than representing a spoken sound.
Word separation was not consistent in the earliest runic inscriptions, and some had no punctuation. Later texts used dots or colon-like separators, but not a single rule shared by every writer. A separator need not mean the end of a sentence, as a modern full stop does.
Historical punctuation in runic text; outside it, a decorative use does not carry a fixed message.
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Worth knowing
- In AM 28 8vo, a medieval Danish runic manuscript of the Scanian Law, separators can divide clauses and sentences too. Runic punctuation did more than separate words.
Questions people ask
1Why does ᛫ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Runic 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 ᛫
- Search it as
- runic punctuation · runic dot · runic separator · rune word divider
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
᛫\16EBCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.