English: A (so defined) Zoographic Character, said to be an ancient version of the Coptic script according to Athanasius Kircher's 1697 book Turris Babel.

This specific character is said to correspond to the coptic letter Ypsilon, Greek Υ, υ; its mystical meaning is said by Kircher to be the "symbol of the movement of the Inferior ones to the Superior [things]" (Processus inferiorum ad superiora symbolum est).

Please be noted that those above are the interpretations given by Kircher himself, and must not be taken as scientific thruths in the modern sense.

Extracted and cut out from page 232 of the book file; see there and in the previous and following pages for a more extended discussion (in latin).