U+10365 "𐍥" Old Permic Letter Shooi Unicode Character

U+10365 "𐍥" Old Permic Letter Shooi is a glyph from the Old Permic script, an alphabet created in the 14th century by Saint Stephen of Perm to write the Komi language, and it represents a sound similar to the English "sh" or the phonetic /ʃ/. This character belongs to the Old Permic block of Unicode, which was added to the standard in version 7.0 released in 2014, and it is used in historical and liturgical texts from the Perm region of Russia. As a unique letter in this script, Shooi contributes to the documentation and digital preservation of a writing system that played a key role in early Slavic missionary work and the cultural identity of the Komi people.