U+10705 "𐜅" Linear A Sign A602 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐜅
U+10705 "𐜅" Linear A Sign A602 is a glyph from the undeciphered Linear A script, which was used by the Minoan civilization on Crete and other Aegean islands from approximately 1800 to 1450 BCE. This specific sign is part of a larger syllabary of over 700 known symbols, and while its exact phonetic value or meaning remains unknown, it is cataloged as A602 in the standard scholarly inventory of Linear A signs. The inclusion of this character in the Unicode Standard allows for its digital representation and study, aiding researchers in efforts to analyze and potentially decode the language through computational and comparative methods with related scripts like Linear B.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10705 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Linear A Sign A602 |
| Block | Linear A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐜅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐜅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x9C 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDF05 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010705 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udf05 |