U+12F98 "𒾘" Cypro-Minoan Sign Cm010 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𒾘

U+12F98 "𒾘" Cypro-Minoan Sign Cm010 is a specific graphical symbol from the undeciphered Cypro-Minoan script, a syllabic writing system used primarily on the island of Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age, from approximately 1550 to 1050 BCE. This sign belongs to a corpus of roughly 200 known characters that have been found on clay tablets, pottery, and other artifacts, representing a linguistic precursor to the later Cypriot Syllabary but remaining largely unreadable today. Cm010, like many Cypro-Minoan signs, likely represented a syllable, often transcribed as a combination of a consonant and a vowel, and its precise phonetic value is unknown because attempts to link the script to other ancient languages like Greek or Etruscan have not yielded a definitive breakthrough. Scholars continue to analyze such signs through comparative paleography and archaeological context, hoping that future discoveries of bilingual inscriptions or more extensive texts will eventually unlock the meaning of t

General Properties

Code Point U+12F98
Version Added 14.0
Name Cypro-Minoan Sign Cm010
Block Cypro-Minoan
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𒾘
HTML Hex Encoding 𒾘
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x92 0xBE 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD80B 0xDF98
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00012F98
C/C++/Java Escape \ud80b\udf98

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 Cypro Minoan
Script Extensions Cypro Minoan
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