U+10302 "𐌂" Old Italic Letter Ke Unicode Character

U+10302 "𐌂" Old Italic Letter Ke is a letter from the Old Italic script, which was used to write various ancient languages of the Italian peninsula, including Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, and early Latin. The letter represents the sound /k/ and is derived from the Phoenician or Greek alphabet, specifically corresponding to the Greek letter kappa (Κ, κ). In the Old Italic alphabets, this character was often written in a shape resembling a reversed or angular Greek kappa, and it appears primarily in inscriptions dating from around the 8th to the 1st centuries BCE. The script was a direct ancestor of the Latin alphabet, and the "𐌂" character itself influenced the development of the later Roman letter C, which originally had a /g/ sound as well before evolving into its classical forms.