U+10B05 "𐬅" Avestan Letter Aan Unicode Character

U+10B05 "𐬅" Avestan Letter Aan is a character from the Avestan script, an alphabet historically used to write Avestan, the sacred language of Zoroastrian scripture. This specific letter represents a long, open back vowel sound, distinct from its short counterpart, and is part of a writing system that was developed during the Sasanian period to accurately record the oral Zoroastrian liturgy. It appears in the Unicode block for Avestan, which was added to the standard in 2009 to support scholarly and religious study of ancient Iranian texts.