U+10003 "𐀃" Linear B Syllable B061 O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐀃
U+10003 "𐀃" Linear B Syllable B061 O is a specific glyph from the Linear B script, an ancient writing system used primarily for recording Mycenaean Greek on clay tablets between roughly 1450 and 1200 BCE. This particular character represents the syllable "o," and its discovery was crucial to Michael Ventris's successful decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s, which revealed the script to be an early form of Greek. The character is part of the Unicode Linear B Syllabary block, allowing for its digital representation and study of the administrative and economic texts from major Mycenaean sites such as Knossos and Pylos.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10003 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Syllable B061 O |
| Block | Linear B Syllabary |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐀃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐀃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x80 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDC03 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010003 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udc03 |