U+106E9 "𐛩" Linear A Sign A570 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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
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