U+10721 "𐜡" Linear A Sign A640 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐜡
U+10721 "𐜡" Linear A Sign A640 is a character from the Linear A script, an undeciphered writing system used by the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean regions during the Bronze Age, roughly from 1800 to 1450 BCE. This particular sign, designated by scholars as A640, is one of many symbols in the Linear A corpus that may represent a syllabic value or a logogram for a specific commodity or concept, though its exact meaning remains unknown due to the lack of a bilingual key or sufficient contextual understanding. It was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Linear A block to support digital encoding and research into this ancient script, which continues to fascinate linguists and archaeologists.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10721 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Linear A Sign A640 |
| Block | Linear A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐜡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐜡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x9C 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDF21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010721 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udf21 |