ᛦ

Etymology
From. The rune was flipped upside down around the 400s-500s, as can be seen on the inscription of the.

Letter

 * 1) A letter of the Younger Futhark, Yr (“yew”), representing  and transliterated as ʀ.

Etymology
From the interpretation as.

Symbol

 * 1)  died, dead (replacing †)

Usage notes
The rune is part of the, which are based on the Younger Futhark. The visual representation of the rune in the original publication is closer to ⟨ᛣ⟩, with straight arms to mirror ⟨ᛉ⟩, but this denotes a different letter,, and not yr. There is currently no specific codepoint in Unicode for straight-armed yr as opposed to curved-armed yr, so both are conventionally encoded as ⟨ᛦ⟩. It should be noted that the distinction between round and straight runes is purely graphemic, and not historically something that distinguishes one runic script from another.