Ancient alphabetic character (4)
I believe the answer is:
rune
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">ancient alphabetic character</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this in another clue)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for rune that I've seen before include "Old alphabet letter" , "Letter of an ancient Germanic alphabet" , "Spell" , "Mysterious character" , "Old Scandinavian letter" .)