U+10484 "𐒄" Osmanya Letter Xa Unicode Character

U+10484 "𐒄" Osmanya Letter Xa is a symbol from the Osmanya alphabet, a writing system created in the 1920s for the Somali language. It represents the sound /ħ/, similar to the voiceless pharyngeal fricative, and its name "Xa" corresponds to the Somali letter X. This specific character was encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Osmanya block, which was added in version 4.0 in 2003 to support the digital representation of this historical script. While the Osmanya alphabet is not widely used today, having been largely replaced by the Latin-based Somali orthography, U+10484 remains an important part of the Unicode inventory for preserving and typing the script in specialized contexts.