U+10A85 "𐪅" Old North Arabian Letter Waw Unicode Character

U+10A85 "𐪅" Old North Arabian Letter Waw is a script symbol used in the ancient Old North Arabian writing system, which was employed across the Arabian Peninsula from roughly the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE to inscribe various dialects including Dadanitic and Thamudic. This particular character represents the consonant sound /w/, analogous to the letter Waw in many Semitic alphabets, and is written in a right-to-left direction. Encoded in the Unicode standard under the Old North Arabian block, it preserves a critical piece of pre-Islamic epigraphic heritage, offering scholars insight into the linguistic and cultural traditions of ancient nomadic and settled communities in the region.