U+10852 "𐡒" Imperial Aramaic Letter Qoph Unicode Character

U+10852 "𐡒" Imperial Aramaic Letter Qoph is a character from the Imperial Aramaic script, which was used as a lingua franca of the Achaemenid Persian Empire from approximately the 5th to 3rd centuries BCE. This specific letter represents the voiceless uvular plosive sound /q/, similar to the Arabic letter qaf, and it is the nineteenth letter in the Imperial Aramaic alphabet. The character is encoded in the Unicode Imperial Aramaic block, which was added to support the historical script used in inscriptions and documents across the Near East. Its visual design typically resembles a circle with a vertical or diagonal stroke extending from it, a form that influenced later scripts such as the Hebrew Qof and the Arabic Qaf.