U+10F72 "𐽲" Old Uyghur Letter Gimel-Heth Unicode Character

U+10F72 "𐽲" Old Uyghur Letter Gimel-Heth is a character from the Old Uyghur script, which was used to write the Old Uyghur language, a Turkic language spoken in Central Asia from roughly the 8th to the 14th century. This particular letter represents a ligature combining the sounds of gimel and heth, two consonants that likely correspond to the phonetic values /ɣ/ and /χ/ or similar velar and uvular fricatives, and it forms part of the script’s adaptation of the Sogdian alphabet, itself derived from Syriac. The Old Uyghur script was historically important for recording Buddhist, Manichaean, and Nestorian Christian texts among the Uyghur people, and this character contributes to the script’s ability to represent the specific phonological nuances of the Turkic language it transcribed.