What 𐜌 means
No reliable word meaning is known for A611. As of 2026, Linear A’s language remains unidentified. A611 is a catalog label; the Unicode name follows GORILA, a modern Linear A sign catalog, and gives no ancient pronunciation.
Scholars disagree about the earliest traces: some count them as Linear A; others see an earlier related script. Linear A is attested from the eighteenth to fourteenth centuries BCE, first on Crete and later around the Aegean. In the early palatial period (the era of Crete’s early palaces), records were mainly administrative; surviving ritual and votive inscriptions show use on objects dedicated as offerings. These contexts do not decode A611.
Linear B adapted many Linear A signs for spoken syllables to write Mycenaean Greek; Cypro-Minoan writing and later Cypriot syllabic writing mark another line of Aegean script development. The sign catalog lists A611 as a combination of AB302 and AB021f: that describes its form, not a sound or meaning. Around 1350 BCE, Linear A stopped appearing in bookkeeping records.
Scholarly or archival; in ordinary chat it reads as an obscure catalog sign.
Treat A611 as a catalog label, not a translated Minoan word.
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Who writes 𐜌
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐜌 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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𐜌\1070C\u{1070C}; for UTF-16 escapes, use \uD801\uDF0C.𐜌 or the decimal form 𐜌 in HTML.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.