U+106DB "𐛛" Linear A Sign A551 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐛛
U+106DB "𐛛" Linear A Sign A551 is a glyph from the undeciphered writing system known as Linear A, which was used by the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete from roughly 1800 to 1450 BCE. This specific sign, cataloged as A551 by scholars, is one of over seven hundred distinct symbols in the script, many of which appear to represent syllables, logograms, or numerical values tied to administrative and economic records on clay tablets. While its exact phonetic or semantic value remains unknown, A551 is part of ongoing efforts to encode and digitally preserve Linear A, a script that continues to intrigue historians and linguists due to its unresolved status as a lost language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+106DB |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Linear A Sign A551 |
| Block | Linear A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐛛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐛛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x9B 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDEDB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000106DB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udedb |