U+10A29 "𐨩" Kharoshthi Letter Ya Unicode Character

U+10A29 "𐨩" Kharoshthi Letter Ya is a glyph from the ancient Kharoshthi script, an alphasyllabary used historically in the regions of present-day northern Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia from around the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE. This specific character represents the consonant sound "ya," and it functions as a syllabic base that can combine with vowel diacritics to form different syllables within the script. The Kharoshthi script was notably employed for inscriptions, Buddhist texts, and administrative records, particularly under the Indo-Greek, Scythian, and Kushan empires. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard allows for digital preservation and modern scholarly study of this historically significant writing system.