U+1683 "ᚃ" Ogham Letter Fearn Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᚃ
U+1683 "ᚃ" Ogham Letter Fearn is a representation of the third letter in the ancient Ogham alphabet, which was used primarily to write the early Irish language on stone monuments, called Ogham stones, dating from around the 4th to 7th centuries. Its name, Fearn, comes from the Old Irish word for "alder tree," linking it to the tree alphabet tradition that associates each Ogham letter with a specific tree or plant. This character serves as a bridge to early medieval Celtic culture, where it likely carried symbolic meanings related to protection and resilience, reflecting the alder’s strong, water-resistant wood, and is now preserved in digital text for linguistic and historical study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1683 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ogham Letter Fearn |
| Block | Ogham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1683 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001683 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1683 |