What 𐚴 means
A502 has no established reading; as of 2026, Linear A remains undeciphered.
Linear A is attested from the early second millennium BCE, with early evidence concentrated at Phaistos, a site on Crete, before records spread across Crete and parts of the Aegean. Many surviving records concern goods and personnel; inscriptions also appear on offering tables and other objects. This describes the script's settings, not A502's specific purpose.
The catalogue analyzes A502 as a composite of AB01, AB27, and AB09; that describes its construction, not a deciphered word. Linear B, a later related script, shares some signs with Linear A, but assigning one of its sounds to A502 would remain a hypothesis. No change in A502's meaning across periods can be established: the sign is sparsely attested and Linear A remains undeciphered as of 2026.
How do I type A502?
Use a Unicode-aware input method or enter it by code point.
𐚴 lies outside Unicode's first range of 65,536 code points, the Basic Multilingual Plane. In HTML, use 𐚴; in JavaScript, use String.fromCodePoint(0x106B4) to construct the character by its full code point.
A blank box or fallback glyph means the selected font lacks Linear A coverage. It does not change the character's identity.
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Who writes 𐚴
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Don't confuse it with
1𐘀𐘙𐘈 This is a sequence of three encoded characters; 𐚴 is one encoded character.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐚴 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Linear A block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 𐚴
- Also called
- A502
- Search it as
- linear a · linear-a · composite sign · AB01 AB27 AB09
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐚴\106B4𐚴; HTML accepts hexadecimal numeric character references.String.fromCodePoint(0x106B4) to construct the character from its code point.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.