Yogh - in Egyptology

In Egyptology

The symbol actually used in Egyptology is, two half-rings opening to the left. Since Unicode 5.1 it has been assigned its proper codepoints (uppercase U+A722 Ꜣ, lowercase U+A723 ꜣ ); a fallback is the numeral 3. A Unicode-based transliteration system adopted by the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale suggested the use of the yogh ȝ character as the transliteration of the Ancient Egyptian "aleph" glyph:

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