U+106A9 "𐚩" Linear A Sign A409-Vas Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐚩
U+106A9 "𐚩" Linear A Sign A409-Vas is a glyph from the Linear A script, an undeciphered writing system used by the Minoan civilization of ancient Crete during the Bronze Age. This particular sign, catalogued as A409 and named "Vas" for its visual resemblance to a vase or vessel, belongs to the set of ideographic symbols that likely represented a specific object, commodity, or syllable in the Minoan language. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that scholars can digitally represent and analyze this rare script, helping to preserve the limited corpus of Linear A inscriptions for continued research into the culture and language of the Minoans.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+106A9 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Linear A Sign A409-Vas |
| Block | Linear A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐚩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐚩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x9A 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDEA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000106A9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udea9 |