U+1066A "𐙪" Linear A Sign A318 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐙪

U+1066A "𐙪" Linear A Sign A318 is a specific glyph from the Linear A script, an undeciphered writing system used by the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete during the Bronze Age, primarily between approximately 1800 and 1450 BCE. This particular sign, cataloged as A318, represents one of the numerous syllabic or ideographic symbols that Minoan scribes employed to record administrative and religious texts on clay tablets and other artifacts. Despite extensive scholarly study, the phonetic value and meaning of A318 remain unknown, as Linear A has not yet been reliably translated due to the limited corpus of surviving inscriptions and the lack of a bilingual Rosetta Stone equivalent. The character is encoded in Unicode to facilitate digital preservation and analysis of these ancient records, ensuring that researchers and historians can accurately represent and share the enigmatic language of the Minoans in modern electronic formats.

General Properties

Code Point U+1066A
Version Added 7.0
Name Linear A Sign A318
Block Linear A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐙪
HTML Hex Encoding 𐙪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x99 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD801 0xDE6A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001066A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud801\ude6a

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