U+106AF "𐚯" Linear A Sign A415-Vas Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐚯
U+106AF "𐚯" Linear A Sign A415-Vas is a glyph representing a specific syllabic or ideographic sign from the undeciphered Linear A script, which was used by the Minoan civilization on Crete during the Bronze Age, roughly from 1800 to 1450 BCE. This particular sign, cataloged as A415 and conventionally named "Vas" as a shorthand for its likely association with a vessel or container, was inscribed primarily on clay tablets and administrative artifacts found at sites like Knossos and Hagia Triada. As part of the Linear A encoding in Unicode, it allows for digital representation and scholarly study of these ancient texts, though the exact phonetic or semantic value of the sign remains unknown due to the script's ongoing decipherment challenges.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+106AF |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Linear A Sign A415-Vas |
| Block | Linear A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐚯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐚯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x9A 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDEAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000106AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udeaf |