U+10000 "𐀀" Linear B Syllable B008 A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐀀
U+10000 "𐀀" Linear B Syllable B008 A is a significant historical and linguistic symbol, representing a specific syllabic sign from the Linear B script used in Mycenaean Greece for administrative records around 1450 to 1200 BCE. This particular character corresponds to the phonetic value "a" and is part of a writing system that was primarily deciphered in the 1950s, revealing early forms of the Greek language. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard at the very beginning of the Linear B block (U+10000 to U+1007F) ensures that scholars, linguists, and digital archivists can accurately encode and display this ancient script in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10000 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Syllable B008 A |
| Block | Linear B Syllabary |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐀀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐀀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x80 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDC00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010000 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udc00 |