U+10913 "𐤓" Phoenician Letter Rosh Unicode Character

U+10913 "𐤓" Phoenician Letter Rosh is a glyph representing the twentieth letter of the Phoenician abjad, which corresponds to the sound "r" and is the direct ancestor of the Latin letter R and the Greek letter Rho. This character derives its name "Rosh," meaning "head" in Semitic languages, reflecting the pictographic origin of the letter as a simplified depiction of a human head or profile. In the Phoenician script, Rosh held the numerical value of 200 and was used extensively in the trade and administrative records of ancient maritime civilizations. Today, it is encoded in the Unicode Standard for digital representation, enabling scholars and typographers to accurately reproduce Phoenician epigraphic texts in modern computing environments.