U+10301 "𐌁" Old Italic Letter Be Unicode Character

U+10301 "𐌁" Old Italic Letter Be is a character that represents a letter from the Old Italic scripts, a family of alphabets used in the Italian peninsula before the rise of the Latin alphabet. This specific letter corresponds to the sound /b/ and is directly ancestral to the Latin letter B, as well as the Greek Beta. It is encoded in the Unicode Old Italic block, which preserves historical writing systems that were employed by various ancient peoples, including the Etruscans and Oscans. The glyph itself resembles a modern B but with more angular proportions, reflecting its chiseled inscriptions into stone or metal.