U+1695 "ᚕ" Ogham Letter Eabhadh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᚕ
U+1695 "ᚕ" Ogham Letter Eabhadh is a letter from the ancient Ogham alphabet, used primarily in early medieval Ireland and Britain to inscribe the Primitive Irish language on stone monuments. Representing the sound value "ea" or sometimes "e," it is named after the eabhadh tree, likely associated with the aspen or poplar, and forms part of the fifth aicme or group of Ogham letters. This character is notable for its distinctive shape, consisting of a vertical stemline with a horizontal stroke crossing it, and it is encoded for use in modern digital text to accurately render historical inscriptions and linguistic studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1695 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ogham Letter Eabhadh |
| Block | Ogham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1695 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001695 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1695 |