U+1685 "ᚅ" Ogham Letter Nion Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Ogham
Script Extensions Ogham
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter