What 𐘠 means
As of 2026, no secure standalone word can be assigned to AB037. Linear A remains undeciphered, and AB037 is a catalog label, not a translated word.
When did Linear A appear on Crete?
By the Middle Minoan IIA phase of the Bronze Age. In the Minoan period, Linear A coexisted with Cretan Hieroglyphic, another writing system on the island.
After the Second Palace period, administrative use faded and surviving inscriptions became sporadic. Some Linear A signs were adapted in the later Linear B script; this system-level connection does not reveal AB037's reading.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 𐘠 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 𐘠
𐘠\10620Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.
