U+168B "ᚋ" Ogham Letter Muin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᚋ
U+168B "ᚋ" Ogham Letter Muin is a symbol from the ancient Ogham alphabet, a writing system used primarily in early medieval Ireland and Britain to inscribe the Primitive Irish language on stone monuments. This specific letter, named "Muin," represents the phonetic sound /m/ and is traditionally associated with the word for "neck" or "love," though its exact meaning in Ogham lore is debated. Carved as a series of horizontal or diagonal lines along a central stemline, Ogham letters like Muin were typically employed for short inscriptions marking territorial boundaries, commemorating individuals, or conveying messages, with over 400 surviving examples found predominantly in Ireland.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+168B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ogham Letter Muin |
| Block | Ogham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x168B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000168B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u168b |