U+168A "ᚊ" Ogham Letter Ceirt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᚊ
U+168A "ᚊ" Ogham Letter Ceirt is a character from the Ogham alphabet, an ancient script used primarily to write the early Irish language on stone monuments and other materials, dating from around the 4th to 7th centuries CE. This specific letter, named Ceirt, is traditionally associated with the phonetic value /k/ (or /q/ in some interpretations) and corresponds to the Latin letter Q, often linked to the word for "apple" or "bush" in the Ogham tree alphabet lore. The character consists of a vertical stem line with a single horizontal stroke extending to the left, following the standard Ogham linear structure where letters are composed of combinations of lines and notches.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+168A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ogham Letter Ceirt |
| Block | Ogham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x168A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000168A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u168a |