U+10847 "𐡇" Imperial Aramaic Letter Heth Unicode Character

U+10847 "𐡇" Imperial Aramaic Letter Heth is a glyph representing the eighth letter of the Imperial Aramaic alphabet, which was used as a lingua franca and administrative script across the Achaemenid Persian Empire from roughly the 5th to 3rd centuries BCE. This letter corresponds to the Semitic consonant “Ḥ” (a voiceless pharyngeal fricative), and its shape is derived from earlier Phoenician and Old Aramaic precursors. The Imperial Aramaic script was crucial for recording official decrees, correspondence, and inscriptions, and the Heth character appears in historical texts such as the Persepolis Fortification Tablets and the Behistun Inscription. Today, it is encoded in the Unicode standard under the Imperial Aramaic block, allowing digital preservation and scholarly study of this ancient writing system.