U+10A96 "𐪖" Old North Arabian Letter Ghain Unicode Character

U+10A96 "𐪖" Old North Arabian Letter Ghain is a script symbol representing the voiced uvular fricative sound /ɣ/, similar to the "gh" in some Semitic languages, and belongs to the Old North Arabian script used in pre-Islamic inscriptions across the Arabian Peninsula. This character is part of the Unicode block for Old North Arabian, which was added to the standard in 2014 to support the digital encoding of this ancient writing system. The letter corresponds to the Arabic letter ghayn (غ) in a later alphabet, reflecting a shared linguistic heritage among Semitic scripts. It appears in historical texts that document the dialects and cultures of ancient Arabian tribes before the spread of Islam.