U+106E0 "𐛠" Linear A Sign A556 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐛠
U+106E0 "𐛠" Linear A Sign A556 is a symbol from the undeciphered Linear A script, which was used on the island of Crete during the Minoan civilization, approximately from 1800 to 1450 BCE. This particular sign, cataloged as A556 by scholars, is one of hundreds of characters that represent syllabic and ideographic elements, though its precise phonetic or semantic meaning remains unknown due to the language of Linear A not being fully understood. The character is part of the Unicode Supplementary Multilingual Plane and was encoded to facilitate digital preservation and academic study of this ancient writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+106E0 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Linear A Sign A556 |
| Block | Linear A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐛠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐛠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x9B 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDEE0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000106E0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udee0 |