U+10B85 "𐮅" Psalter Pahlavi Letter Waw-Ayin-Resh Unicode Character

U+10B85 "𐮅" Psalter Pahlavi Letter Waw-Ayin-Resh is a single glyph used in the Psalter or Book of Psalms variant of the Pahlavi script, which was employed to write Middle Persian primarily in religious Zoroastrian texts. This character represents a ligature combining the letters Waw, Ayin, and Resh, reflecting the script's tendency to merge common letter sequences into compact symbols for efficiency. It belongs to the Psalter Pahlavi block, a section of Unicode dedicated to this specific script that was standardized to preserve manuscript traditions from early medieval Iran. As a logographic element, it encodes a phonetic grouping rather than a single sound, aiding in the accurate transcription of sacred liturgical language.