U+1038A "𐎊" Ugaritic Letter Yod Unicode Character

U+1038A "𐎊" Ugaritic Letter Yod is a glyph from the Ugaritic alphabet, a cuneiform script used to write the Ugaritic language in the ancient city of Ugarit (modern-day Ras Shamra, Syria) during the Late Bronze Age. This character represents the consonant sound /y/ (like the English letter Y) and corresponds to the tenth letter in the Ugaritic abjad, ultimately descending from the Proto-Sinaitic script. Encoded in the Unicode Standard's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, it allows for the digital preservation and scholarly study of this extinct Northwest Semitic language, which was instrumental in understanding ancient Canaanite culture and literature, including the famous Baal Cycle.