U+10841 "𐡁" Imperial Aramaic Letter Beth Unicode Character

U+10841 "𐡁" Imperial Aramaic Letter Beth is the second letter of the Imperial Aramaic script, historically used across the Achaemenid Empire from around the 5th to 3rd centuries BCE for administrative and official inscriptions. This character represents the voiced bilabial stop sound /b/ and is derived from an earlier Phoenician glyph, serving as the direct ancestor of the Hebrew letter Bet, the Syriac Beth, and the Arabic Bāʼ. In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Imperial Aramaic block (U+10840–U+1085F), which was added to support the digital encoding of this ancient writing system for scholarly and historical text preservation.