U+1070E "𐜎" Linear A Sign A613 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐜎

U+1070E "𐜎" Linear A Sign A613 is a specific graphic symbol from the undeciphered writing system of the Minoan civilization, known as Linear A, which was used primarily on the island of Crete and other Aegean islands during the Bronze Age from roughly 1800 to 1450 BCE. This character is part of the Unicode Standard's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, specifically within the Linear A block, which was added to support academic research and digital preservation of ancient scripts. The sign is cataloged as A613 in the standard corpus of Linear A signs, though its precise phonetic value and meaning remain unknown since the script has not yet been conclusively deciphered. Its inclusion in Unicode allows scholars to encode, display, and share texts containing this rare and historically significant script digitally.

General Properties

Code Point U+1070E
Version Added 7.0
Name Linear A Sign A613
Block Linear A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐜎
HTML Hex Encoding 𐜎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x9C 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD801 0xDF0E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001070E
C/C++/Java Escape \ud801\udf0e

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