U+1031B "𐌛" Old Italic Letter Ers Unicode Character

U+1031B "𐌛" Old Italic Letter Ers is a letter from the Old Italic script, which was used to write various ancient languages on the Italian peninsula, including Etruscan, Oscan, and early forms of Latin. This specific character represents the sound /r/ and is a variant or alternative form of the more common letter "R" found in the Etruscan alphabet, sometimes distinguished by its angular or hooked shape. Its name "Ers" is derived from the Etruscan word for this sound, and it belongs to the Old Italic Unicode block, which encodes ancient scripts predating the classical Latin alphabet.