U+11CA0 "𑲠" Marchen Subjoined Letter Ba Unicode Character

U+11CA0 "𑲠" Marchen Subjoined Letter Ba is a glyph from the historical Marchen script, which was used to write the Zhangzhung language in the ancient kingdom of Zhangzhung, located in the Tibetan Plateau and western Himalayas. This character represents a subjoined, or below-the-line, form of the consonant "Ba," used in ligatures when combining with other letters to form complex syllable clusters, a common feature in Brahmic writing systems. Part of the Unicode block for Marchen, it was added to support the digital preservation and scholarly study of this extinct script and its associated texts, such as those from the Bön religion.