U+106CB "𐛋" Linear A Sign A531 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐛋

U+106CB "𐛋" Linear A Sign A531 is a symbol from the Linear A script, an undeciphered writing system used by the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete during the Bronze Age, roughly from 1800 to 1450 BCE. This particular sign, cataloged as A531 in the standard corpus of Linear A symbols, represents one of the many syllabic or ideographic characters found on clay tablets, seals, and other artifacts primarily from archaeological sites like Knossos and Hagia Triada. While its exact phonetic value or meaning remains unknown due to the script's undeciphered status, sign A531 is grouped with similar wedge shaped or linear forms that scholars study to understand Minoan administrative, economic, and religious practices. The inclusion of this character in the Unicode Standard helps preserve and enable digital research into ancient scripts, allowing linguists and historians to encode, share, and analyze Linear A inscriptions more easily across modern computing platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+106CB
Version Added 7.0
Name Linear A Sign A531
Block Linear A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐛋
HTML Hex Encoding 𐛋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x9B 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD801 0xDECB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000106CB
C/C++/Java Escape \ud801\udecb

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