U+106DF "𐛟" Linear A Sign A555 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+106DF "𐛟" Linear A Sign A555 is a glyph from the Linear A script, an undeciphered writing system used by the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete during the Bronze Age, primarily between 1800 and 1450 BCE. This particular sign, cataloged as A555 in academic inventories, is one of many syllabic or ideographic symbols found on clay tablets and other artifacts, though its exact phonetic value or meaning remains unknown due to the lack of a bilingual key or extensive corpus. Scholars analyze such characters for patterns in administrative and religious contexts, hoping to eventually link Linear A to a known language, such as an early form of Greek or an Anatolian language, but the script persists as one of historical linguistics' greatest puzzles.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𐛟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𐛟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x90 0x9B 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD801 0xDEDF |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000106DF |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud801\udedf |
Unicode Properties