U+10906 "𐤆" Phoenician Letter Zai Unicode Character

U+10906 "𐤆" Phoenician Letter Zai is the tenth letter of the Phoenician alphabet, representing the voiced alveolar fricative sound /z/. This ancient character, whose name likely means "weapon" or "sword" in Phoenician, evolved from an earlier Proto-Sinaitic glyph depicting a weapon or characteristic object. In the Phoenician script, which was written from right to left, Zai was a foundational consonant contributing to the development of the Greek letter Zeta and its Latin descendant Z. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard as part of the Phoenician block allows for the accurate digital preservation and scholarly study of texts from the Phoenician civilization in modern computational environments.