U+106C5 "𐛅" Linear A Sign A525 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐛅

U+106C5 "𐛅" Linear A Sign A525 is a glyph from the Linear A script, an undeciphered writing system used by the Minoan civilization of Crete during the Bronze Age, primarily from around 1800 to 1450 BCE. This particular sign, cataloged as A525 in the standard Linéaire A classification, represents one of the many syllabic or ideographic symbols found on clay tablets, seals, and other artifacts unearthed at sites like Knossos and Phaistos. Although its precise phonetic value or meaning remains unknown due to the script's undeciphered nature, scholars classify it within a corpus of over 1,400 known characters that likely conveyed syllables and logograms for administrative records. The inclusion of A525 in Unicode supports digital preservation and research, allowing linguists and historians to more easily study and compare these ancient inscriptions.

General Properties

Code Point U+106C5
Version Added 7.0
Name Linear A Sign A525
Block Linear A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐛅
HTML Hex Encoding 𐛅
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x9B 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD801 0xDEC5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000106C5
C/C++/Java Escape \ud801\udec5

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Linear A
Script Extensions Linear A
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter