U+10855 "𐡕" Imperial Aramaic Letter Taw Unicode Character

U+10855 "𐡕" Imperial Aramaic Letter Taw is a written symbol from the Imperial Aramaic script, historically used from about the 5th to the 3rd century BCE for official and administrative documents across the Achaemenid Persian Empire. This specific character represents the twenty-second and final letter of the Imperial Aramaic alphabet, corresponding to the Phoenician and Hebrew letter "Taw," which typically carries the sound /t/ (as in English "tall"). Its shape in this script is a distinctive X-like cross or rotated square with crossed lines, differing from later cursive forms. The character belongs to the Unicode block "Imperial Aramaic," which was added to support the encoding of this ancient writing system in digital text, allowing for accurate representation of historical inscriptions and scholarly works.