U+10B30 "𐬰" Avestan Letter Ze Unicode Character

U+10B30 "𐬰" Avestan Letter Ze is a character from the Avestan script, a writing system used to record the ancient liturgical language of Zoroastrianism known as Avestan. This specific letter represents a voiced alveolar fricative sound, similar to the English "z", and was employed in sacred texts and religious manuscripts, particularly during the Sasanian period when the script was standardized. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard, within the Avestan block (U+10B00 to U+10B3F), ensures that scholars and enthusiasts can digitally preserve, study, and share these historically significant writings without needing specialized fonts. As part of a right to left script, the Ze glyph is written and read in a direction opposite to that of Latin-based alphabets, reflecting the unique orthographic traditions of the ancient Iranian world.