U+1694 "ᚔ" Ogham Letter Iodhadh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1694 "ᚔ" Ogham Letter Iodhadh is the twentieth letter of the Ogham alphabet, an early medieval script used primarily to write the Primitive and Old Irish languages on stone monuments. In the classical Ogham system, it corresponds to the sound "I" and is traditionally associated with the yew tree, symbolizing endurance and transformation. This character belongs to the Ogham block of the Unicode Standard, encoded in 1999 to support the digital representation of this historic script, and it is notable for its distinctive vertical stem with a single diagonal stroke on the right side, reflecting the simple linear geometry of Ogham lettering.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1694 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ogham Letter Iodhadh |
| Block | Ogham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1694 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001694 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1694 |