U+1000D "𐀍" Linear B Syllable B036 Jo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐀍
U+1000D "𐀍" Linear B Syllable B036 Jo is a specific glyph from the Linear B script, an ancient syllabary used primarily for writing Mycenaean Greek on clay tablets found in Crete and mainland Greece dating from roughly 1450 to 1200 BCE. This character represents the syllable "jo" and forms part of a complex writing system that was deciphered in the 1950s by Michael Ventris, revealing administrative records of palaces, such as inventories of goods, livestock, and personnel. The inclusion of this character in the Unicode Standard ensures that scholars and linguists can digitally represent and study this crucial piece of early European writing, preserving the connection to a Bronze Age civilization that predates the classical Greek alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1000D |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Syllable B036 Jo |
| Block | Linear B Syllabary |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐀍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐀍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x80 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDC0D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001000D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udc0d |