U+10F14 "𐼔" Old Sogdian Letter Pe Unicode Character

U+10F14 "𐼔" Old Sogdian Letter Pe is a grapheme from the Old Sogdian script, an ancient writing system used to record the Sogdian language, which was an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Central Asia along the Silk Road. This specific character represents the sound /p/ and is part of the Old Sogdian block in Unicode, added to support the scholarly representation and digital preservation of this historically significant script. The letter Pe, like other characters in the Old Sogdian alphabet, is written in a right to left direction and exhibits the cursive, connected style typical of the script's Aramaic-derived origins. Its inclusion in Unicode allows researchers, linguists, and enthusiasts to accurately display and share inscriptions and texts from Sogdian cultural and commercial manuscripts, which date back to the early centuries of the first millennium CE.