U+169C Ogham Reversed Feather Mark
U+169C was added in Unicode version 3.0 in 1999. It belongs to the block
This character is a Close Punctuation and is mainly used in the Ogham script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is mirrored into
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Ogham ( OG-əm, Modern Irish: [ˈoː(ə)mˠ]; Middle Irish: ogum, ogom, later ogam [ˈɔɣəmˠ]) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language (in the "orthodox" inscriptions, 4th to 6th centuries AD), and later the Old Irish language (scholastic ogham, 6th to 9th centuries). There are roughly 400 surviving orthodox inscriptions on stone monuments throughout Ireland and western Britain, the bulk of which are in southern Munster. The largest number outside Ireland are in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
The vast majority of the inscriptions consist of personal names.
According to the High Medieval Bríatharogam, the letters are named after various trees. For this reason, Ogham is sometimes known as the Celtic tree alphabet.
The etymology of the word ogam or ogham remains unclear. One possible origin is from the Irish og-úaim 'point-seam', referring to the seam made by the point of a sharp weapon.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 5788 |
UTF-8 | E1 9A 9C |
UTF-16 | 16 9C |
UTF-32 | 00 00 16 9C |
URL-Quoted | %E1%9A%9C |
HTML hex reference | ᚜ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ᚜ |
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 34 AF 32 |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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3.0 (1999) | |
OGHAM REVERSED FEATHER MARK | |
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Ogham | |
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