U+169A "ᚚ" Ogham Letter Peith Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᚚ
U+169A "ᚚ" Ogham Letter Peith is a glyph from the Ogham alphabet, an early medieval script used primarily to write the early Irish language, often found inscribed on stone monuments. This specific character represents the phonetic sound "p," which was a relatively rare and late addition to the Ogham set, likely borrowed to accommodate loanwords from Latin and other languages. Known as Peith, it holds a place among the Forfeda, the supplementary group of letters added to the core twenty-character alphabet, and its inclusion reflects the adaptability of Ogham to evolving linguistic needs in ancient Ireland and Britain.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ogham Letter Peith |
| Block | Ogham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x169A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000169A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u169a |