U+10716 "𐜖" Linear A Sign A621 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐜖
U+10716 "𐜖" Linear A Sign A621 is a symbol from the undeciphered script known as Linear A, which was used by the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean islands during the Bronze Age, primarily from roughly 1800 to 1450 BCE. This particular sign, catalogued as A621, is one of hundreds of distinct characters in the Linear A corpus, though its phonetic value and meaning remain unknown because the language it represents has not been definitively interpreted. Included in the Unicode Standard under the Linear A block, this character helps scholars and digital archivists transcribe, study, and preserve the ancient inscriptions for ongoing research into Minoan administration, economy, and culture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10716 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Linear A Sign A621 |
| Block | Linear A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐜖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐜖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x9C 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDF16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010716 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udf16 |