U+10F1C "𐼜" Old Sogdian Letter Final Taw with Vertical Tail Unicode Character

U+10F1C "𐼜" Old Sogdian Letter Final Taw with Vertical Tail is a script character used in the ancient Sogdian writing system, which was employed to write the Sogdian language, an Eastern Iranian language spoken along the Silk Road. This specific character represents a final form of the letter "taw," distinguished by a vertical tail that denotes its position at the end of a word, and it belongs to the Sogdian alphabet block within Unicode. The Old Sogdian script itself is a descendant of the Aramaic alphabet and was later adapted into other Central Asian scripts, and this character is significant for scholars deciphering historical inscriptions and manuscripts from the Sogdian cultural sphere, which flourished from around the 4th to the 10th centuries CE.