U+10101 "𐄁" Aegean Word Separator Dot Unicode Character

U+10101 "𐄁" Aegean Word Separator Dot is a historical punctuation mark used in the ancient Aegean scripts, most prominently Linear A and Linear B, which were employed by Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations to write their languages around the second millennium BCE. This small dot typically appears between words on clay tablets and other inscriptions, functioning as a straightforward visual divider to clarify boundaries where modern languages might use a space. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that scholars can digitally represent and study these ancient texts with accuracy, preserving a key element of early writing systems that predate the Greek alphabet by centuries.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10101
Version Added	4.0
Name	Aegean Word Separator Dot
Block	Aegean Numbers
General Category	Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐄁
HTML Hex Encoding	𐄁
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x84 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDD01
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010101
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\udd01

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Break After
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Cypro Minoan Cypriot Linear B
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other