U+168D Ogham Letter Ngeadal
U+168D was added to Unicode in version 3.0 (1999). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Ogham script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+168D behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
nGéadal (Ngéadal or Ngeadal) is the Irish name of the thirteenth letter of the Ogham alphabet, ᚍ.
The Bríatharogam (kennings) for the letter are:
- lúth lego "sustenance of a leech"
- étiud midach "raiment of physicians"
- tosach n-échto "beginning of slaying"
Its meaning is probably "[the act of] wounding". In Old Irish, the letter name was Gétal. It may be a verbal noun of gonid 'wounds, slays'. in which case is related to Welsh gwanu 'to pierce, to stab', which comes from the root was *gʷhen- 'to pierce, to strike'. Its original phonetic value in Primitive Irish was [ɡʷ], the voiced labiovelar. In Old Irish, this phoneme merged with g (gort), and the medieval manuscript tradition assigns it Latin ng [ŋ], hence the unetymological spelling of the letter name with initial n-.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 5773 |
UTF-8 | E1 9A 8D |
UTF-16 | 16 8D |
UTF-32 | 00 00 16 8D |
URL-Quoted | %E1%9A%8D |
HTML hex reference | ᚍ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | áš |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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3.0 (1999) | |
OGHAM LETTER NGEADAL | |
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Ogham | |
Other Letter | |
Ogham | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
None | |
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✔ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
Other Letter | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
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not a number | |
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R |