What 𐛯 means
A576 is a catalogue number for one Linear A sign. Linear A wrote the language of Bronze Age Crete, often called Minoan, and appears on clay accounting tablets, vessels, stone offering tables, and other objects. Unicode's Linear A names follow GORILA catalogue numbers; GORILA is the sign catalogue by Godart and Olivier (1976–1985).
Linear B developed later and reused parts of the Linear A sign repertoire to write Mycenaean Greek, an early form of Greek. Linear B belongs to an Aegean period around 1400–1190 BCE. That history links the scripts, but a Linear B value cannot simply be assigned to A576.
What are AB120 and AB022M doing beside A576?
They are chart references linked to A576. The Unicode 18.0.0 Linear A chart lists AB120 (𐙉) and AB022M (𐘔) in A576's annotation. This is a catalogue association, not a transliteration of A576.
Specialist and archival: A576 is an inventory reference used in catalogues and discussions of Linear A.
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Who writes 𐛯
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Questions people ask
1Can I read A576 as a Linear B syllable?
No. Linear B reused parts of the Linear A sign repertoire, but a Linear B value cannot be assigned to this sign by resemblance alone.
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How to type or find 𐛯
- Also called
- A576
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- a 576 · linear a · minoan · gorila · linear b · linear a font
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐛯\106EFCodes and encoding1 code points
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