U+10319 "𐌙" Old Italic Letter Khe Unicode Character

U+10319 "𐌙" Old Italic Letter Khe is a letter from the Old Italic script, a family of alphabets used in ancient Italy before the rise of the Roman Empire, including Etruscan, Oscan, and Umbrian. This specific character represents a guttural or velar sound, akin to the Greek chi, and is found in the Etruscan alphabet where it denoted a /k/ or aspirated /kʰ/ sound. The Old Italic Letter Khe typically appears in inscriptions on artifacts like pottery and stone monuments, offering modern scholars valuable insight into the linguistic history of pre-Roman Italic cultures.