U+10331 "𐌱" Gothic Letter Bairkan Unicode Character

U+10331 "𐌱" Gothic Letter Bairkan is a letter from the Gothic alphabet, an ancient script used primarily to write the Gothic language, an East Germanic language known from manuscripts like the 4th-century Codex Argenteus. Its name "Bairkan" derives from the Gothic word for "birch," and it represents the "b" sound, corresponding to the Latin letter B and the Greek beta. This character is part of the Gothic block in Unicode, which was added to support scholarly transcription and digital preservation of Gothic texts. Visually, it resembles a rounded form with a looped top, reflecting its origins in the adaptation of Greek and Latin script by the Gothic bishop Ulfilas.