U+1687 "ᚇ" Ogham Letter Dair Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᚇ
U+1687 "ᚇ" Ogham Letter Dair is a character from the Ogham alphabet, an early medieval script used primarily to write the Primitive and Old Irish languages, as well as occasionally Pictish. This particular letter represents the sound "d" and carries the tree name "Dair," meaning oak, as Ogham letters were traditionally associated with specific trees or plants. "ᚇ" is part of the Ogham block in Unicode, which was included to support historical and linguistic scholarship, and it is often used in modern contexts for decorative, cultural, or educational purposes tied to Celtic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1687 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ogham Letter Dair |
| Block | Ogham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1687 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001687 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1687 |