U+168C "ᚌ" Ogham Letter Gort Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᚌ
U+168C "ᚌ" Ogham Letter Gort is a letter from the ancient Ogham alphabet, which was used primarily in early medieval Ireland and Britain to inscribe the Primitive Irish language on stone monuments. This particular character, named after the Irish word for "field" or "ivy," corresponds to the sound "G" in the Ogham writing system. It is one of twenty original letters in the alphabet, often associated with trees or plants in medieval lore, and represents a historical link to the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Celtic peoples.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+168C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ogham Letter Gort |
| Block | Ogham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x168C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000168C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u168c |