U+106B7 "𐚷" Linear A Sign A505 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐚷
U+106B7 "𐚷" Linear A Sign A505 is a specific glyph from the undeciphered script known as Linear A, which was used by the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete during the Bronze Age, primarily from around 1800 to 1450 BCE. This character, catalogued as sign A505 in the standard classification, represents one of the many syllabic or ideographic symbols whose phonetic value and meaning remain unknown to scholars, as Linear A has not yet been successfully translated. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard allows for the digital representation and study of this ancient script, aiding researchers in epigraphy and historical linguistics who work to understand the Minoan language and its administrative or religious texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+106B7 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Linear A Sign A505 |
| Block | Linear A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐚷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐚷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x9A 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDEB7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000106B7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udeb7 |