U+10A2C "𐨬" Kharoshthi Letter Va Unicode Character

U+10A2C "𐨬" Kharoshthi Letter Va is a glyph representing the syllable "va" in the ancient Kharoshthi script, which was historically used from around the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE across parts of modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia to write languages such as Gandhari Prakrit and early Sanskrit. This character is part of the Kharoshthi block in Unicode, encoded to support the scholarly study of Buddhist texts, inscriptions, and manuscripts from the Gandharan region, where the script was written from right to left. As a consonant letter, "va" serves a phonetic function in the abugida system of Kharoshthi, where inherent vowels are modified by diacritical marks, and its preservation in digital encoding aids researchers in accurately representing historical documents and linguistic artifacts.