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Hwair ('''') is the name of , the Gothic Letter expressing the '' Wh ''-sound, transliterated with the ''h+v'' Ligature (lowercase , uppercase ). The name is recorded by Alcuin in Codex Vindobonensis 795 as ''uuaer''. There was no Elder Futhark rune for the phoneme, so that other than for most Gothic letters, the name does not continue the name of a rune.
The Gothic letter is assigned Unicode U+10348 , the Latin ''h+v'' ligature U+0195 (lowercase) and U+01F6 (uppercase). |
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