U+10009 "𐀉" Linear B Syllable B051 Du Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐀉
U+10009 "𐀉" Linear B Syllable B051 Du is a symbol from the ancient Linear B script, which was used in Mycenaean Greece between roughly 1450 and 1200 BCE for administrative record keeping on clay tablets. This particular syllabic character represents the phonological value "du" and belongs to a corpus of inscriptions that have been crucial for deciphering the Mycenaean Greek language. It is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane of Unicode, specifically within the Linear B Syllabary block, ensuring that this rare and historically significant writing system can be digitally preserved and accurately reproduced in modern texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10009 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Syllable B051 Du |
| Block | Linear B Syllabary |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐀉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐀉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x80 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDC09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010009 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udc09 |