U+10905 "𐤅" Phoenician Letter Wau Unicode Character

U+10905 "𐤅" Phoenician Letter Wau is a representation of the sixth letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which was the ancestor of many modern writing systems including Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. This character, named Wau, originally denoted a consonant sound similar to the English "w" or a vowel sound like "u" or "o" depending on its position, and its shape evolved from earlier pictographs representing a hook or a peg. In the Phoenician script, it held a numerical value of six and was a foundational component in the development of the Greek letter Digamma, which later influenced the Latin letter F.