U+1686 "ᚆ" Ogham Letter Uath Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1686 "ᚆ" Ogham Letter Uath is a historical script element from the ancient Ogham alphabet, used primarily in early medieval Ireland and Britain to inscribe the Old Irish and Pictish languages on stone monuments. This particular letter represents the phonetic value equivalent to a modern 'H' or sometimes a 'U' sound, and its name, "Uath," is associated with the word for "fear" or "terrible" in the Ogham tree letter system, though it is also linked to the hawthorn tree. As part of the Ogham block in Unicode, it preserves a vital piece of linguistic and cultural heritage, allowing digital representation of inscriptions that once served as boundary markers, memorials, or expressions of identity in early Celtic societies.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1686
Name
Ogham Letter Uath
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ᚆ
HTML Hex Encoding
ᚆ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0x9A 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1686
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001686
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1686
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Ogham