U+106AE "𐚮" Linear A Sign A414-Vas Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐚮
U+106AE "𐚮" Linear A Sign A414-Vas is a graphic symbol from the Linear A script, an undeciphered writing system used by the Minoan civilization on Crete during the Bronze Age, primarily from approximately 1800 to 1450 BCE. This specific sign, cataloged as A414 and named "Vas," likely represents a pictographic depiction of a vessel or vase, reflecting the script's use in administrative and economic records such as those found on clay tablets and seals in palace archives. As part of the Linear A block in Unicode, this character helps preserve and enable digital study of a key artifact of ancient Aegean culture, despite that the language and many of its symbols remain unreadable to modern scholars.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+106AE |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Linear A Sign A414-Vas |
| Block | Linear A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐚮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐚮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x9A 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDEAE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000106AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udeae |