U+1065D "𐙝" Linear A Sign A309A Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐙝

U+1065D "𐙝" Linear A Sign A309A is a specific glyph from the undeciphered Linear A script, which was used by the Minoan civilization on Crete during the Bronze Age, primarily between 1800 and 1450 BCE. This sign, cataloged as A309A by scholars, belongs to a syllabic or logographic writing system that remains largely unread today, though it is thought to represent a phonetic syllable or a concrete object such as a commodity or a personal name. The character is encoded in Unicode's Supplementary Multilingual Plane to support academic research and digital preservation of ancient scripts, and it often appears in transcriptions of clay tablets found at sites like Hagia Triada and Knossos. Despite its unknown pronunciation, Linear A Sign A309A provides a tangible link to the administrative and economic records of Minoan society.

General Properties

Code Point U+1065D
Version Added 7.0
Name Linear A Sign A309A
Block Linear A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐙝
HTML Hex Encoding 𐙝
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x99 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD801 0xDE5D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001065D
C/C++/Java Escape \ud801\ude5d

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