U+0852 "ࡒ" Mandaic Letter Aq Unicode Character

U+0852 "ࡒ" Mandaic Letter Aq is a glyph from the Mandaic script, a writing system historically used by the Mandaean religious community of Iraq and Iran to write the Mandaic language, a variety of Eastern Aramaic. This specific letter represents the sound equivalent to the Semitic letter Qoph, typically pronounced as a voiceless uvular plosive, and it is employed in liturgical and religious texts. The character appears in the Mandaic block of the Unicode Standard, which was added in version 6.0 released in 2010, to support the digital preservation of this endangered script and its cultural heritage.