U+10305 "𐌅" Old Italic Letter Ve Unicode Character

U+10305 "𐌅" Old Italic Letter Ve is a glyph representing the sixth letter of various ancient Italic alphabets, including Etruscan, Oscan, and Umbrian, and it corresponds to the sound /v/ in Latin. This character was used in inscriptions from roughly the 7th to 1st centuries BCE in pre Roman Italy, and it reflects the Etruscan alphabet's adaptation from a Western Greek script. Its shape, resembling a modern Latin "V" or a lamp with a pointed base, was later adopted by the Romans for their letter V, making it a direct ancestor of one of the most common letters in the Latin alphabet. The character is part of the Old Italic script block in Unicode, which was encoded to support scholarly study and digital preservation of ancient texts.