U+1699 "ᚙ" Ogham Letter Eamhancholl Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᚙ
U+1699 "ᚙ" Ogham Letter Eamhancholl is a character from the ancient Ogham alphabet, primarily used to write early Irish and Pictish languages on stone monuments. It represents the phonetic value of the vowel sound /e/ or sometimes /ea/ in medieval Irish contexts, and its name derives from the word for "wolf" or "wych elm" in Old Irish. This letter is part of the Ogham series known as the forfeda, a group of supplementary characters added to the basic alphabet, and it is typically the last letter in the Ogham script. In modern usage, it appears in historical and linguistic studies, as well as in cultural and decorative contexts related to Celtic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1699 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ogham Letter Eamhancholl |
| Block | Ogham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1699 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001699 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1699 |