U+10383 "𐎃" Ugaritic Letter Kha Unicode Character

U+10383 "𐎃" Ugaritic Letter Kha is a glyph from the ancient Ugaritic alphabet, a cuneiform script used between the 14th and 12th centuries BCE in the city of Ugarit (modern-day Ras Shamra, Syria). This character represents the consonantal sound /χ/ (a voiceless uvular fricative similar to the "ch" in German "Bach"), and is transliterated as "ḫ" or "kh" in modern scholarship. The Ugaritic script, which was written in a left-to-right direction and consisted of thirty signs, was deciphered in the early 20th century and is crucial for understanding the Canaanite languages and the development of the alphabet, including its influence on later scripts like Phoenician and Hebrew.