U+106B9 "𐚹" Linear A Sign A508 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐚹
U+106B9 "𐚹" Linear A Sign A508 is a character from the undeciphered Linear A script, which was used by the Minoan civilization of Crete primarily during the Bronze Age. Designated as sign A508 in scholarly inventories, this specific symbol is one of many inscribed on clay tablets and artifacts found at archaeological sites such as Knossos and Phaistos, where Linear A was used for administrative and possibly religious purposes before the later Mycenaean Linear B script. Although its precise phonetic value and meaning remain unknown due to the script's incomplete decipherment, the inclusion of A508 in the Unicode Standard ensures its preservation for linguistic research and digital representation of ancient Aegean writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+106B9 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Linear A Sign A508 |
| Block | Linear A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐚹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐚹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x9A 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDEB9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000106B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udeb9 |