U+1689 "ᚉ" Ogham Letter Coll Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᚉ
U+1689 "ᚉ" Ogham Letter Coll is part of the Ogham script, an ancient alphabet used primarily in early medieval Ireland and Britain to write the Primitive and Old Irish languages. This specific character represents the sound "C" or "K" and is named after the hazel tree, as "Coll" is the Old Irish word for hazel, reflecting the script's tradition of naming letters after trees and plants. It appears as a series of vertical or diagonal strokes along a central line, following the distinctive Ogham style of carving on stone monuments and wooden objects.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1689 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ogham Letter Coll |
| Block | Ogham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1689 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001689 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1689 |