U+1690 "ᚐ" Ogham Letter Ailm Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1690 "ᚐ" Ogham Letter Ailm is a character from the Ogham alphabet, an ancient script used primarily to write the early Irish language on stone monuments and wood, dating from around the 4th to 6th centuries AD. Representing the sound "a," its name "Ailm" is traditionally associated with the pine or silver fir tree in medieval Ogham lore, linking the letter to the ogham tree alphabet system. The symbol itself consists of a single straight stemline with a perpendicular stroke crossing it at the center, a design that reflects the simple line and notch structure typical of Ogham inscriptions. Today, this character is included in the Unicode standard for digital representation of historical scripts, allowing scholars and enthusiasts to encode and display Ogham text on computers and mobile devices.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ᚐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ᚐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE1 0x9A 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x1690 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00001690 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u1690 |
Unicode Properties