U+10287 "𐊇" Lycian Letter W Unicode Character

U+10287 "𐊇" Lycian Letter W is a specific glyph from the Lycian alphabet, an ancient script used between roughly 500 and 300 BCE in the Lycian region of Anatolia (modern-day Turkey). This letter represents a voiced labiovelar sound similar to the English "w" and was part of a 29-character alphabetic system derived from the Greek alphabet but with distinct local adaptations. The character appears in the Unicode Standard under the Lycian block, encoding a writing system that was deciphered in the 19th and 20th centuries primarily through bilingual inscriptions with Greek. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars, linguists, and digital archivists can accurately represent and study this extinct language in modern computing environments.