U+10912 "𐤒" Phoenician Letter Qof Unicode Character

U+10912 "𐤒" Phoenician Letter Qof is a character from the Ancient History and Phoenician script block, representing the twentieth letter of the Phoenician alphabet, historically derived from a pictograph of a needle's eye or a monkey and pronounced as a voiceless uvular plosive /q/. This letter serves as the direct ancestor of the Greek letter Qoppa and the Latin letter Q, transmitting its distinctive sound and shape through the evolution of the alphabet system over millennia. In the original Phoenician writing system, which was an abjad consisting only of consonants, Qof was used to write words in the Phoenician language, primarily found in inscriptions from the ancient Phoenician civilization around the Mediterranean. Its glyph, often resembling a vertical line with a curved top or a circle on a stem, reflects the abstracted form of its original pictographic source after centuries of scribal simplification.