U+1053B "𐔻" Caucasian Albanian Letter Zha Unicode Character

U+1053B "𐔻" Caucasian Albanian Letter Zha is a letter from the Caucasian Albanian script, an ancient alphabet used between the 5th and 12th centuries CE to write the Caucasian Albanian language, which was spoken in parts of the modern-day Caucasus region. This specific letter represents a voiced postalveolar fricative sound, similar to the "zh" in English "measure," and it was part of a larger alphabet of 52 characters traditionally attributed to the Armenian monk Mesrop Mashtots. The script and its letters, including Zha, were rediscovered and deciphered through 20th-century scholarship, primarily from palimpsests and inscriptions in Georgia and Azerbaijan, and were formally encoded in Unicode version 7.0 in 2014.