U+10714 "𐜔" Linear A Sign A619 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐜔

U+10714 "𐜔" Linear A Sign A619 is a specific glyph from the undeciphered Linear A script used by the Minoan civilization of Bronze Age Crete, primarily for administrative and religious inscriptions on clay tablets and other objects. This particular sign, cataloged as A619 in the standard sign list, likely represents a syllabic or ideographic element of the script, though its precise phonetic value or meaning remains unknown due to the lack of a bilingual Rosetta Stone equivalent for Linear A. The inclusion of this character in the Unicode Standard, within the Linear A block, ensures digital preservation and facilitates scholarly research, data encoding, and typographic representation of this ancient writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+10714
Version Added 7.0
Name Linear A Sign A619
Block Linear A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐜔
HTML Hex Encoding 𐜔
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x9C 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD801 0xDF14
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010714
C/C++/Java Escape \ud801\udf14

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