U+10900 "𐤀" Phoenician Letter Alf Unicode Character

U+10900 "𐤀" Phoenician Letter Alf is an ancient character representing the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, derived from the Proto-Canaanite script and ancestral to the Greek Alpha and the Latin A. Its name "Alf" means "ox" in Phoenician, reflecting the letter's origin as a pictograph of an ox head, and it was used in the writing system of the Phoenician civilization, a major Semitic culture that flourished around 1500 to 300 BCE along the eastern Mediterranean coast. This character is part of the Phoenician Unicode block, which was added to the standard in 2010 to preserve and digitally represent this historically significant script for scholarly and cultural purposes.