U+106E9 "𐛩" Linear A Sign A570 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐛩

U+106E9 "𐛩" Linear A Sign A570 is a specific glyph representing a syllable or ideogram from the undeciphered Linear A script, which was used by the Minoan civilization on Crete primarily during the Bronze Age, from roughly 1800 to 1450 BCE. This particular sign, cataloged as A570 in standard academic inventories, appears on clay tablets and other artifacts excavated from sites such as Knossos and Phaistos, where it likely functioned as part of a phonetic or logographic writing system that recorded the now-lost Minoan language. Modern scholars study its shape and context alongside hundreds of other Linear A symbols, comparing them to the later, partially deciphered Linear B script used for Mycenaean Greek, in hopes of better understanding the economic, administrative, and ritual texts of the Minoan culture. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that researchers and digital humanists can represent this ancient symbol accurately in modern text processing and scholarly publications

General Properties

Code Point U+106E9
Version Added 7.0
Name Linear A Sign A570
Block Linear A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐛩
HTML Hex Encoding 𐛩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x9B 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD801 0xDEE9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000106E9
C/C++/Java Escape \ud801\udee9

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