U+10A1B "𐨛" Kharoshthi Letter Ttha Unicode Character

U+10A1B "𐨛" Kharoshthi Letter Ttha is a character from the Kharoshthi script, an ancient writing system used primarily in the regions of modern-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia from around the 3rd century BCE to the 3rd century CE. This specific letter represents the aspirated voiceless retroflex stop sound /ʈʰ/, equivalent to the sound of "th" in Indian languages like Sanskrit, and is typically transliterated as "ṭha." The Kharoshthi script was written from right to left and was employed for recording texts in Gandhari Prakrit and other Middle Indo-Aryan languages, notably for Buddhist manuscripts such as the Gandharan Buddhist texts. As part of the Unicode Standard, this character ensures the digital preservation and representation of this historically significant script for modern computing and scholarly research.