U+10F12 "𐼒" Old Sogdian Letter Ayin Unicode Character

U+10F12 "𐼒" Old Sogdian Letter Ayin is a glyph from the Old Sogdian script, an ancient writing system used primarily from the 4th to the 8th centuries CE to record the Sogdian language, an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Central Asia along the Silk Road. This specific character represents the sound /ʕ/ (a voiced pharyngeal fricative), analogous to the Semitic letter Ayin from which it is derived, and it formed part of a script that influenced later writing traditions, including the Uyghur and Mongolian alphabets. The letter is encoded in the Unicode standard under the Sogdian block, added in version 11.0 (2018) to support the digital preservation and study of this historical script.