U+10012 "𐀒" Linear B Syllable B070 Ko Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐀒
U+10012 "𐀒" Linear B Syllable B070 Ko is a specific glyph from the Linear B script, an ancient writing system used primarily for recording Mycenaean Greek on clay tablets in the Late Bronze Age, roughly between 1450 and 1200 BCE. This particular character represents the syllable "ko" as deciphered by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick in the 1950s, and it belongs to the Linear B Syllabary block in Unicode. Found in administrative and economic texts from sites like Knossos and Pylos, the symbol was used to spell words and names in the earliest attested form of Greek, providing crucial insight into the language, trade, and society of Mycenaean civilization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10012 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Syllable B070 Ko |
| Block | Linear B Syllabary |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐀒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐀒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x80 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDC12 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010012 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udc12 |