U+1686 "ᚆ" Ogham Letter Uath Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᚆ
U+1686 "ᚆ" Ogham Letter Uath is a historical script element from the ancient Ogham alphabet, used primarily in early medieval Ireland and Britain to inscribe the Old Irish and Pictish languages on stone monuments. This particular letter represents the phonetic value equivalent to a modern 'H' or sometimes a 'U' sound, and its name, "Uath," is associated with the word for "fear" or "terrible" in the Ogham tree letter system, though it is also linked to the hawthorn tree. As part of the Ogham block in Unicode, it preserves a vital piece of linguistic and cultural heritage, allowing digital representation of inscriptions that once served as boundary markers, memorials, or expressions of identity in early Celtic societies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1686 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ogham Letter Uath |
| Block | Ogham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1686 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001686 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1686 |