U+106EF "𐛯" Linear A Sign A576 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐛯

U+106EF "𐛯" Linear A Sign A576 is a paleographic symbol from the undeciphered Minoan writing system known as Linear A, which was used on the island of Crete and in parts of the Aegean during the Bronze Age, roughly from 1800 to 1450 BCE. This specific sign, cataloged as A576 in standard scholarly inventories, belongs to a corpus of over a hundred known symbols that represent syllables, logograms, or numerical values, though its exact phonetic or semantic meaning remains unknown due to the lack of a bilingual Rosetta Stone for the script. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard allows for digital preservation and scholarly research, facilitating the study of this ancient script alongside related systems like Linear B, which was later used to write Mycenaean Greek.

General Properties

Code Point U+106EF
Version Added 7.0
Name Linear A Sign A576
Block Linear A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐛯
HTML Hex Encoding 𐛯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x9B 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD801 0xDEEF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000106EF
C/C++/Java Escape \ud801\udeef

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