U+1685 "ᚅ" Ogham Letter Nion Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᚅ
U+1685 "ᚅ" Ogham Letter Nion is a character from the Ogham alphabet, an early medieval script used primarily to write the Primitive and Old Irish languages on stone monuments and wooden artifacts. This specific letter represents the phonetic value /n/ and its name "Nion" is traditionally associated with the ash tree, reflecting the Ogham system's practice of associating trees or plants with individual letters. In modern contexts, the Ogham Letter Nion is used for historical and linguistic representation, as well as in decorative or cultural revivals of the ancient script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1685 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ogham Letter Nion |
| Block | Ogham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1685 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001685 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1685 |