U+169B "᚛" Ogham Feather Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᚛
U+169B "᚛" Ogham Feather Mark is a punctuation symbol used in medieval Irish inscriptions written in the Ogham script, where it often serves as a decorative or semantic marker, typically placed at the beginning or end of a text to denote a special section, similar to a quotation mark or a boundary indicator. Its shape resembles a stylized feather or a pair of parallel diagonal strokes, and it appears primarily in historical Ogham manuscripts and stone carvings from early medieval Ireland.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ogham Feather Mark |
| Block | Ogham |
| General Category | Open Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Mirrored | Yes |
| Mirrored Character | "᚜" U+169C Ogham Reversed Feather Mark |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket Type | Open |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket | "᚜" U+169C Ogham Reversed Feather Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x169B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000169B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u169b |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Open Punctuation |
| Script | Ogham |
| Script Extensions | Ogham |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Close |