U+10397 "𐎗" Ugaritic Letter Rasha Unicode Character

U+10397 "𐎗" Ugaritic Letter Rasha is a cuneiform symbol from the Ugaritic alphabet, an ancient Semitic script used in the city-state of Ugarit (modern-day Ras Shamra, Syria) from approximately the 14th to 12th centuries BCE. This character represents the consonant sound /r/ and corresponds to the twenty-second letter of the Ugaritic abecedary, whose name is derived from the Semitic word for "head." As part of the Unicode Standard, it is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane within the Ugaritic block, enabling digital preservation and study of texts written in this ancient language, which was crucial for understanding Canaanite and early Hebrew linguistics. The letter appears wedge-shaped in its cuneiform form, carved into clay tablets, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars and enthusiasts can accurately represent Ugaritic vocabulary, such as words like "rš" meaning "head," in modern computing environments.