U+10524 "𐔤" Elbasan Letter Zhe Unicode Character

U+10524 "𐔤" Elbasan Letter Zhe is a glyph from the historical Elbasan script, an alphabet created in the 18th century for writing the Albanian language, primarily used in the region of Elbasan, Albania. This specific letter represents the voiced postalveolar fricative sound, similar to the English "zh" in "measure," and it is part of a unique writing system documented in the Elbasan Gospel Manuscript, a religious text from 1761. The script was added to the Unicode Standard in Version 7.0, released in 2014, to preserve and enable digital use of this significant but lesser known alphabet.