U+10008 "𐀈" Linear B Syllable B014 Do Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐀈
U+10008 "𐀈" Linear B Syllable B014 Do is a specific character within the Linear B script, which was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, an early form of the Greek language, primarily on clay tablets dating from the 15th to 13th centuries BCE. This particular syllable represents the sound "do" and belongs to a syllabary of approximately 87 phonetic signs that were deciphered in the 1950s by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick. The character is part of the Linear B Syllabary block in Unicode, serving as a digital representation for academic study and preservation of these ancient administrative records, which primarily documented economic and palatial transactions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10008 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Syllable B014 Do |
| Block | Linear B Syllabary |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐀈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐀈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x80 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDC08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010008 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udc08 |