U+106C2 "𐛂" Linear A Sign A521 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐛂
U+106C2 "𐛂" Linear A Sign A521 is a symbolic glyph from the undeciphered Linear A script used by the Minoan civilization of Bronze Age Crete, specifically representing a sign cataloged as A521 in the standard numerical classification of Linear A. This character is part of the Unicode standard's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, encoded to facilitate scholarly research and digital preservation of ancient Aegean writing systems. Visual representations of the sign typically depict a linear, abstract shape, and while its exact phonetic value or meaning remains unknown due to the script's undeciphered status, it is believed to have been used for administrative and religious inscriptions on clay tablets and artifacts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+106C2 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Linear A Sign A521 |
| Block | Linear A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐛂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐛂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x9B 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDEC2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000106C2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udec2 |