U+10F03 "𐼃" Old Sogdian Letter Final Beth Unicode Character

U+10F03 "𐼃" Old Sogdian Letter Final Beth is a glyph that represents the final form of the letter "beth" in the Old Sogdian alphabet, a script used primarily from the 4th to 8th centuries CE for writing the Sogdian language, an extinct Middle Iranian language once spoken in Central Asia along the Silk Road. This specific character is employed in the script's cursive style, where letters often take distinct shapes depending on their position within a word, and its appearance, resembling a curved or angled hook, indicates the end of a syllable or a word containing the consonant sound /b/ or /β/. As part of the Unicode standard, it enables modern digital representation and preservation of Old Sogdian inscriptions and manuscripts, which are critical for historical and linguistic studies of the region.