U+106B5 "𐚵" Linear A Sign A503 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐚵
U+106B5 "𐚵" Linear A Sign A503 is part of 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 character, cataloged as A503 in the standard corpus of Linear A signs, belongs to the Supplementary set of the script and is thought to function as a syllabogram or logogram, though its precise phonetic or ideographic value remains unknown due to the script's lack of complete decipherment. It appears in the Unicode Standard's Linear A block, which was introduced to support digital representation of this ancient script for academic and philological research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+106B5 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Linear A Sign A503 |
| Block | Linear A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐚵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐚵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x9A 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDEB5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000106B5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udeb5 |