U+168F "ᚏ" Ogham Letter Ruis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᚏ
U+168F "ᚏ" Ogham Letter Ruis is a symbol from the ancient Ogham alphabet, a medieval writing system used primarily to represent the early Irish language on stone monuments and wooden implements. This specific letter, named "Ruis" and associated with the sound "R," also carries a traditional meaning of "red" or "blush," often linked to the elder tree in the Ogham tree calendar and symbolizing cycles of life, death, and renewal. In modern contexts, the character is used for academic and cultural purposes, such as in linguistic studies or digital representations of Ogham script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+168F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ogham Letter Ruis |
| Block | Ogham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x168F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000168F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u168f |