U+10688 "𐚈" Linear A Sign A348 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐚈
U+10688 "𐚈" Linear A Sign A348 is a specific syllabic or ideographic symbol from the undeciphered script known as Linear A, which was used by the Minoan civilization of Crete, primarily from approximately 1800 to 1450 BCE. This particular sign, cataloged as A348 in the standard corpus, belongs to an inventory of over 300 distinct characters that have been encoded to support scholarly research and digital representation of the script. Although its phonetic or semantic value remains unknown due to the language of Linear A not being understood, the symbol's inclusion in Unicode allows for its consistent preservation and study in electronic texts, aiding comparative epigraphy with the related but deciphered Linear B script of Mycenaean Greek.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10688 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Linear A Sign A348 |
| Block | Linear A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐚈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐚈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x9A 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDE88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010688 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\ude88 |