U+10722 "𐜢" Linear A Sign A642 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐜢

U+10722 "𐜢" Linear A Sign A642 is a specific character from the Linear A script, an undeciphered writing system used by the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete during the Bronze Age, primarily from around 1800 to 1450 BCE. This sign, cataloged as A642 by researchers, is one of many syllabic or ideographic symbols found on clay tablets and other artifacts, primarily from administrative contexts such as palaces and storage sites. Although the exact phonetic or semantic value of A642 remains unknown due to the lack of a complete bilingual key, its inclusion in the Unicode Standard allows for the digital preservation and scholarly study of this ancient script, aiding efforts to compare it with related scripts like Linear B and to analyze patterns in Minoan language and record-keeping.

General Properties

Code Point U+10722
Version Added 7.0
Name Linear A Sign A642
Block Linear A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐜢
HTML Hex Encoding 𐜢
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x9C 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD801 0xDF22
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010722
C/C++/Java Escape \ud801\udf22

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