U+1048B "𐒋" Osmanya Letter Cayn Unicode Character

U+1048B "𐒋" Osmanya Letter Cayn is part of the Osmanya script block, which was created in the early 20th century by Osman Yusuf Kenadid to write the Somali language. This specific letter represents the voiced pharyngeal fricative sound, similar to the Arabic letter 'ayn, and is used in the Osmanya alphabet as a distinct consonant. The character is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane and was added to the Unicode Standard in version 4.0, released in 2003, to support the digital representation of this historic Somali writing system.