U+10923 "𐤣" Lydian Letter D Unicode Character

U+10923 "𐤣" Lydian Letter D is a script symbol from the ancient Lydian alphabet, which was used in Lydia, a region in western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey), primarily between the 8th and 3rd centuries BCE. This character represents the voiced dental or alveolar plosive sound /d/ and was part of an alphabet derived from Phoenician script, adapted to write the Lydian language, an Indo-European language of the Anatolian subgroup. Today, this glyph is encoded in Unicode to support digital representation of historical texts and inscriptions found on artifacts like coins and tomb markers, aiding scholars in reconstructing Lydian phonology and culture.