U+10F3D "𐼽" Sogdian Letter Ayin Unicode Character

U+10F3D "𐼽" Sogdian Letter Ayin is a glyph from the Sogdian script, which was historically used to write the Sogdian language, an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Central Asia along the Silk Road. This particular letter represents the voiced pharyngeal fricative or approximant sound akin to the Arabic letter "ayn," functioning as a consonant in Sogdian orthography. It belongs to the Sogdian block in Unicode, which was added in the version 11.0 standard released in 2018 to support the digital encoding of ancient texts and inscriptions from the Sogdian cultural sphere.