U+1090F "𐤏" Phoenician Letter Ain Unicode Character

U+1090F "𐤏" Phoenician Letter Ain is a glyph representing the sixteenth letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which corresponds to the sound of a voiced pharyngeal fricative, similar to the Arabic letter ‘ayn. Historically, this letter descended from the Proto-Sinaitic script, where it likely depicted an eye, and its name “Ain” directly translates to “eye” in Semitic languages. In the Phoenician writing system, used from around 1200 BCE onward, this character served as a consonant and influenced the development of the Greek letter Omicron and subsequently the Latin letter O.