U+10843 "𐡃" Imperial Aramaic Letter Daleth Unicode Character

U+10843 "𐡃" Imperial Aramaic Letter Daleth is a glyph representing the fourth letter of the Imperial Aramaic alphabet, corresponding to the Semitic letter daleth, which historically denoted the voiced dental plosive sound /d/. This character belongs to the Imperial Aramaic script block, a writing system used primarily for administrative and official documents within the Achaemenid Persian Empire from approximately the 5th to the 3rd century BCE. It is typically written in a right-to-left direction and can be distinguished by its angular, open form, which evolved from earlier Phoenician scripts. The daleth serves as one of the 22 letters in the Imperial Aramaic abjad and is encoded as a historic script character in the Unicode Standard for digital representation and preservation of ancient texts.