U+1063C "𐘼" Linear A Sign Ab074 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐘼

U+1063C "𐘼" Linear A Sign Ab074 is a symbol from the Linear A script, an undeciphered writing system used by the Minoan civilization of Crete during the Bronze Age, roughly from 1800 to 1450 BCE. Designated as "Ab074" by scholars, this sign is part of a syllabary that remains largely mysterious, as the underlying Minoan language has not yet been fully understood. The character itself is one of over a thousand known Linear A signs, most of which are believed to represent syllables, logograms, or numerical values, though specific linguistic or economic meanings for Ab074 have not been reliably identified due to limited bilingual texts or substantial deciphered content. While its visual form resembles some signs from the related Linear B script, which was adapted to write Mycenaean Greek, attempts to assign phonetic values by analogy have yielded only tentative and often contradictory hypotheses.

General Properties

Code Point U+1063C
Version Added 7.0
Name Linear A Sign Ab074
Block Linear A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐘼
HTML Hex Encoding 𐘼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x98 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD801 0xDE3C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001063C
C/C++/Java Escape \ud801\ude3c

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