U+10342 "𐍂" Gothic Letter Raida Unicode Character

U+10342 "𐍂" Gothic Letter Raida is a letter from the Gothic alphabet, which was developed in the 4th century AD by Bishop Ulfilas for his translation of the Bible into the Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language. This character represents the sound /r/ and is derived from the Greek letter Rho (Ρ), though its exact shape reflects the adaptation of Greek and possibly Runic scripts to the Gothic writing system. Raida, whose name means "ride" or "journey" in Old Germanic, appears in historical manuscripts like the Codex Argenteus, and today it is encoded in Unicode as part of the Gothic block to support scholarly study and digital preservation of ancient texts.