What ᛯ means
No; it marked a calendar number.
Calendars used the 16-rune Younger Futhark alphabet, then added three signs for the cycle’s remaining numbers. A Swedish account describes them as abbreviations used in calendars and rhyme-staves (stick-shaped calendars). The earliest known runic calendars date to the late thirteenth century in Sweden.
Outside runic-calendar discussions, ᛯ has no established everyday message meaning as of 2026.
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Who writes ᛯ
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why can this glyph look different across fonts?
As of 2026, Unicode’s reference drawing is a sample, not a required design; fonts may draw the branches differently.
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How to type or find ᛯ
- Search it as
- golden number 18 · runic calendar · rune for year 18
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
ᛯCSS
\16EFCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ᛯ
HTML hex
ᛯ
CSS content
content: "\16EF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E1%9B%AF
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.