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Glyph for U+168A
Source: Noto Sans Ogham

U+168A Ogham Letter Ceirt

U+168A was added to Unicode in version 3.0 (1999). It belongs to the block U+1680 to U+169F Ogham in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

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+168A 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:

Ceirt (Queirt) ᚊ (Primitive Irish cert) is a letter of the Ogham alphabet, transcribed as Q. It expresses the Primitive Irish labiovelar phoneme. The 14th century Auraicept na n-Éces glosses the name as aball, meaning "apple tree". Its phonetic value is [kʷ].

The Bríatharogam (kennings) for the letter are:

  • Morainn mac Moín: Clithar baiscill ‘the shelter of a lunatic’
  • Maic ind Óc: Bríg anduini ‘substance of an insignificant person’
  • Con Culainn: Dígu fethail ‘dregs of clothing’

McManus (1991:37) compares it to Welsh perth ‘thorn bush’, Latin quercus ‘oak’ (PIE *perkwos); it survives in the Modern Irish ceirtlis ("cider"). The name was confused with Old Irish ceirt ‘rag’, reflected in the kennings.

In the framework of a runic origin of the Ogham, the name has also been compared to the name of the Anglo Saxon Futhorc p-rune, Peorð: This name is itself unclear, but most often identified as ‘pear’, a meaning not unrelated to ‘apple’. The p letter of the Gothic alphabet has a cognate name, pairþra, alongside the clearly related qairþra, the name for the Gothic labiovelar. Since an influence of Ogham letter names on Gothic letter names is eminently unlikely, it seems most probable that the Proto-Germanic p rune had a meaning of ‘pear tree’ (*pera-trewô?), continued in the Anglo-Saxon peorð rune (with the meaning of the name forgotten), and was introduced into 4th century Ireland as the name of a rune named after a pear or apple tree. As p was nonexistent as a phoneme in Primitive Irish, the p and q runes would have been considered equivalent.

Representations

System Representation
5770
UTF-8 E1 9A 8A
UTF-16 16 8A
UTF-32 00 00 16 8A
URL-Quoted %E1%9A%8A
HTML hex reference ᚊ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ᚊ

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 3.0 (1999)
Unicode Name OGHAM LETTER CEIRT
Unicode 1 Name
Block Ogham
General Category Other Letter
Script Ogham
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+168A Ogham Letter Ceirt
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+168A Ogham Letter Ceirt
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+168A Ogham Letter Ceirt
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+168A Ogham Letter Ceirt
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+168A Ogham Letter Ceirt
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+168A Ogham Letter Ceirt
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+168A Ogham Letter Ceirt
Case Folding Glyph for U+168A Ogham Letter Ceirt
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+168A Ogham Letter Ceirt
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
Ideographic
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+168A Ogham Letter Ceirt
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+168A Ogham Letter Ceirt
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+168A Ogham Letter Ceirt
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R