U+106D4 "𐛔" Linear A Sign A541 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐛔

U+106D4 "𐛔" Linear A Sign A541 is one of the many undeciphered symbols from the Linear A script, a writing system used by the Minoan civilization on Crete during the Bronze Age, primarily from around 1800 to 1450 BCE. This specific sign, cataloged as A541, belongs to a corpus of roughly 1,400 distinct characters that were inscribed on clay tablets, seals, and other artifacts, but unlike the later Linear B script which was decoded to represent early Greek, Linear A remains unreadable and its underlying language unknown. Scholars classify such signs based on their visual forms and contexts, but without a bilingual Rosetta Stone equivalent or a clear understanding of the Minoan language, the phonetic value and meaning of A541, along with most Linear A signs, remain speculative, limiting interpretations of Minoan administrative, economic, and ritual records.

General Properties

Code Point U+106D4
Version Added 7.0
Name Linear A Sign A541
Block Linear A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐛔
HTML Hex Encoding 𐛔
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x9B 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD801 0xDED4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000106D4
C/C++/Java Escape \ud801\uded4

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