U+1693 "ᚓ" Ogham Letter Eadhadh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᚓ
U+1693 "ᚓ" Ogham Letter Eadhadh is a character from the Ogham alphabet, an ancient script used primarily to write the early Irish language from roughly the 4th to the 7th centuries CE. Representing the sound value of the letter "E" or a short "e" sound, it corresponds to the fifth letter of the Ogham alphabet, often associated with the aspen tree in medieval letter-naming traditions (where "Eadhadh" also refers to the aspen). This specific character appears in the Unicode Ogham block as a vertical or slanted stroke with a crossbar, following the standard linear style of Ogham inscriptions. It is used today in modern digital contexts for historical reconstruction, Celtic linguistic studies, and decorative or cultural purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1693 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ogham Letter Eadhadh |
| Block | Ogham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1693 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001693 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1693 |