U+10A98 "𐪘" Old North Arabian Letter Zain Unicode Character

U+10A98 "𐪘" Old North Arabian Letter Zain is a script symbol from the Old North Arabian abjad, an ancient writing system used in the Arabian Peninsula from roughly the 8th to 2nd centuries BCE to inscribe languages like Dadanitic and Taymanitic. This particular character represents the consonantal sound /z/, akin to the English letter Z, and is part of a broader corpus of inscriptions found on stone and rock surfaces, primarily in the region of modern-day Saudi Arabia. As a member of the Old North Arabian block, this letter contributes to the preservation and digital representation of a script that is crucial for understanding early Semitic epigraphy and the cultural history of pre-Islamic Arabia.