U+10A20 "𐨠" Kharoshthi Letter Tha Unicode Character

U+10A20 "𐨠" Kharoshthi Letter Tha is a glyph from the ancient Kharoshthi script, which was historically used to write the Gāndhārī language and other Prakrits across regions of present-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia from roughly the 3rd century BCE to the 3rd century CE. This character represents the aspirated dental stop sound "tha," similar to the 'th' in the English word "thanks," and was an essential component of the script's consonant inventory. Kharoshthi was commonly inscribed on coins, manuscripts, and stone carvings, often in conjunction with the Brahmi script, and was notably employed by the Mauryan Empire and later the Kushan Empire to record administrative and Buddhist texts. Today, the Kharoshthi Letter Tha is preserved in the Unicode Standard for digital representation of historical documents and scholarly research.