What ᚛ means
It marks a passage’s start and helps orient the reading. Ogham is an early Irish script, often cut along stone edges. The script’s earliest archaeological evidence dates to the late fourth century.
In later manuscripts, ᚛ and ᚜ can bracket a passage. Other Ogham punctuation includes a dot-and-stroke mark; Scottish examples also use double dots. In 1945, R. A. S. Macalister coined the English label “feather mark” for the arrow-tail shape. The central stemline is a font convention, so some typefaces omit it.
A specialist Ogham punctuation mark that opens a passage and helps show reading direction.
“Feather” describes the shape; it does not establish an ancient feather meaning.
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1Why does ᚛ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ᚛
- Also called
- arrow mark
- Search it as
- ogham · ogam · ogham arrow mark · ogham feather · ogham bracket · ogham direction mark · ogham punctuation
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
᚛\169BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.