U+10F09 "𐼉" Old Sogdian Letter Heth Unicode Character

U+10F09 "𐼉" Old Sogdian Letter Heth is a script symbol derived from the ancient Sogdian alphabet, which was used to write the Sogdian language, an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Central Asia along the Silk Road from around the 4th to the 10th centuries CE. This particular letter represents the consonant sound /ħ/ or /h/, akin to the Semitic letter heth from which it historically descends, and it appears in manuscripts and inscriptions that document Sogdian trade, religion, and culture, including Buddhist, Manichaean, and Christian texts. The character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Old Sogdian block to preserve this extinct yet historically significant writing system for digital text and scholarly research.