U+10399 "𐎙" Ugaritic Letter Ghain Unicode Character

U+10399 "𐎙" Ugaritic Letter Ghain is a character from the Ugaritic script, an ancient cuneiform alphabet used for writing the Ugaritic language in the city-state of Ugarit during the Late Bronze Age, around the 14th to 12th centuries BCE. This specific letter represents a voiced velar fricative sound, similar to the Arabic ghayn (غ) or the modern French "r" in some dialects. As part of a 30-character abjad, the Ugaritic script was inscribed on clay tablets using a wedge shaped stylus, and this letter would have been employed in religious, administrative, and literary texts, such as the famous Epic of Baal. The character was encoded in Unicode version 5.2 in 2009, preserving access to this ancient writing system for digital text and scholarly research.