U+10901 "𐤁" Phoenician Letter Bet Unicode Character

U+10901 "𐤁" Phoenician Letter Bet is the second letter of the Phoenician alphabet, representing the consonant sound /b/. Derived from an earlier Egyptian hieroglyph depicting a house, its name "bet" literally means "house" in Semitic languages. This character serves as the direct ancestor of the Greek letter beta and subsequently the Latin letter B, making it a foundational glyph in the history of the Western alphabet. It belongs to the Phoenician script block of Unicode and is used in scholarly contexts for the reconstruction of ancient Semitic inscriptions.