U+10623 "𐘣" Linear A Sign Ab040 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐘣

U+10623 "𐘣" Linear A Sign Ab040 is a symbol from the undeciphered Linear A script used by the Minoan civilization on Crete during the Bronze Age. Designated with the number Ab040 in the standard classification by scholars, this character represents one of the many syllabic or ideographic signs found on clay tablets and other inscriptions. Its exact phonetic value and meaning remain unknown due to the lack of a bilingual Rosetta Stone for Linear A, though it is often compared with similar-looking signs in the related Linear B script, which was used for writing Mycenaean Greek. The character was added to the Unicode Standard in 2014 as part of a major encoding of ancient scripts, allowing it to be used in digital text for research and preservation.

General Properties

Code Point U+10623
Version Added 7.0
Name Linear A Sign Ab040
Block Linear A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐘣
HTML Hex Encoding 𐘣
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x98 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD801 0xDE23
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010623
C/C++/Java Escape \ud801\ude23

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 Alphabetic
Script Linear A
Script Extensions Linear A
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter