U+10639 "𐘹" Linear A Sign Ab069 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐘹

U+10639 "𐘹" Linear A Sign Ab069 is a script symbol from the undeciphered Linear A writing system used by the Minoan civilization on Crete during the Bronze Age, roughly from 1800 to 1450 BCE. Unlike Linear B, which was later deciphered as an early form of Greek, Linear A remains largely unreadable, though scholars have identified that many signs represent syllables or logograms for commodities, with Ab069 specifically noted in administrative texts stored on clay tablets. Its exact phonetic value and meaning are unknown, but it is classified within the AB series of signs, which are considered to have shared syllable values with the corresponding Linear B characters. This particular sign is primarily of interest to epigraphers and historians studying Minoan economy, language, and the evolution of Aegean scripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+10639
Version Added 7.0
Name Linear A Sign Ab069
Block Linear A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐘹
HTML Hex Encoding 𐘹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x98 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD801 0xDE39
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010639
C/C++/Java Escape \ud801\ude39

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