U+169C "᚜" Ogham Reversed Feather Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᚜
U+169C "᚜" Ogham Reversed Feather Mark is a typographic symbol used within the Ogham script, an ancient medieval alphabet primarily employed to write the early Irish language. This specific character, the counterpart to the Ogham Feather Mark (U+169B), functioned as a punctuation or space marker, often appearing at the boundaries of words or longer text segments to aid in readability. Unlike standard alphabetical letters, it represents no phonetic value but serves as a structural element, and its reversed orientation suggests it may have designated the end of a textual unit, such as a line or a section, in the Ogham writing tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+169C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ogham Reversed Feather Mark |
| Block | Ogham |
| General Category | Close Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Mirrored | Yes |
| Mirrored Character | "᚛" U+169B Ogham Feather Mark |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket Type | Close |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket | "᚛" U+169B Ogham Feather Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᚜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᚜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x9A 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x169C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000169C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u169c |
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 | Close 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 |