U+1692 "ᚒ" Ogham Letter Ur Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1692 "ᚒ" Ogham Letter Ur is a character used in the ancient Ogham script, which was primarily employed to write the early Irish language on stone monuments. This particular letter, named Ur, represents the phonetic value /u/ and is associated with the native Irish word for "earth" or "soil," reflecting its connection to the natural world. In the Ogham alphabet, Ur is the eighteenth letter in the standard sequence, typically carved along the edge of a standing stone as a vertical or diagonal stroke intersecting or adjoining a central line. Today, it is included in the Unicode standard to preserve and enable digital representation of this historic writing system for linguistic and cultural study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1692 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ogham Letter Ur |
| Block | Ogham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1692 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001692 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1692 |