Hatran Letter Gimel

This is one consonant in a Hatran Aramaic spelling.

Hatran was a local form of Aramaic used at Hatra, an ancient city. The surviving Hatran record at Hatra spans 98–97 BCE to circa 241 CE; BCE means before the Common Era, and CE means Common Era. Inscriptions appear on temples, statues, altars and stone, serving memorial, religious dedication, tomb and building purposes.

At Dura-Europos, Hatran appears beside Greek in bilingual religious inscriptions; the passages add information rather than translate line by line. Hatran belonged to the North Mesopotamian Aramaic traditions alongside Palmyrene, Nabataean and Mandaic. Nabataean, a different Aramaic tradition, is the one generally treated as a source for the Arabic script; Hatran is not.

How do I type it without breaking the text?

Use Unicode-aware input; ordinary Latin keyboards have no dedicated Hatran key.

Hatran lines run right to left. Fonts may draw the letter differently, and optional ligatures—joined forms of neighboring letters—occur inconsistently. In text that mixes Hatran with left-to-right writing, a correct letter may appear in an unexpected place.