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<h2 id="list-of-hexagraphs">List of hexagraphs</h2> <h3>Irish hexagraphs</h3> <p>⟨eabhai⟩ is used to write /əu̯/ (/oː/ in <a href="/facts/Ulster_Irish/joJ2Gmf1">Ulster</a>), e.g. <i>breabhaid</i> "sortie", <i>deabhaidh</i> "haste, skirmish", <i>feabhais</i> "improvement" (<a href="/facts/Genitive_case/nMXh3StK">gen</a>), <i>leabhair</i> "books", <i>meabhair</i> "minds". </p><p>⟨eadhai⟩ is used to write /əi̯/ (/eː/ in Ulster), e.g. <i>feadhain</i> "troop", <i>Gairmleadhaigh</i> "Gormley" (surname), <i>ghleadhair</i> "struck". </p><p>⟨eamhai⟩ is used to write /əu̯/, e.g. <i>creamhaigh</i> "garlic" (<a href="/facts/Genitive_case/nMXh3StK">gen</a>), <i>sceamhaim</i> "I bark", <i>seamhain</i> "semiology", <i>sleamhain</i> "slippery", <i>teamhair</i> "tor, hill". </p><p>⟨eidhea⟩ and ⟨eighea⟩ are both used to write /əi̯/ (/eː/ in Ulster), e.g. <i>eidheann</i> "ivy", <i>feidheartha</i> "penniless", <i>leigheas</i> "healing", <i>deideigheanna</i> "soft toys", <i>deighealfaidh</i> "will divide". </p><p>⟨oidhea⟩ and ⟨oighea⟩ are both used to write /əi̯/, e.g. <i>oidheanna</i> "fates", <i>sroigheall</i> "scourge", <i>broigheall</i> "cormorant", <i>oigheann</i> "oven", <i>oighear</i> "ice", <i>poigheachán</i> "(snail)shell". </p><p>⟨eomhai⟩ is used to write /oː/, e.g. <i>cheomhair</i> "foggy" (gen.). </p><p>⟨iumhai⟩ is used to write /uː/, e.g. <i>ciumhais</i> "edge". </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Multigraph_(orthography)/DYC3WFQh">Multigraph</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Digraph_(orthography)/wp3UgEyU">Digraph</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Pentagraph/xpqb9svQ">Pentagraph</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Heptagraph/EGj31LIW">Heptagraph</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_Latin-script_letters/NXH3yXNs">List of Latin-script letters</a></li></ul>