U+10980 "𐦀" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter A Unicode Character

U+10980 "𐦀" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter A is a symbol from the Meroitic script used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush, a major civilization in what is now Sudan, predominantly between 300 BCE and 400 CE. This specific glyph represents the vowel sound "a" and is one of the 23 hieroglyphic signs adapted from Egyptian hieroglyphs for writing the Meroitic language, which remains only partially deciphered. The character was added to the Unicode Standard in version 6.1, released in January 2012, as part of the Meroitic Hieroglyphs block, enabling digital representation and study of this historical writing system.