U+1060C "𐘌" Linear A Sign Ab016 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐘌
U+1060C "𐘌" Linear A Sign Ab016 is a specific glyph from the undeciphered writing system known as Linear A, which was used by the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete from approximately 1800 to 1450 BCE. This sign represents one of the many phonetic or ideographic symbols found on clay tablets and other artifacts, and it is categorized under the "Linear A" block in Unicode, which was added to support scholarly research and digital preservation of ancient scripts. Despite extensive study, the exact phonetic value and meaning of Ab016 remain unknown, as Linear A has not yet been fully deciphered, though it is believed to record an early form of the Minoan language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1060C |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Linear A Sign Ab016 |
| Block | Linear A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐘌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐘌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x98 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDE0C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001060C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\ude0c |