U+10018 "𐀘" Linear B Syllable B023 Mu Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐀘

U+10018 "𐀘" Linear B Syllable B023 Mu is a syllabic sign from the Linear B script, which was used in Mycenaean Greece for administrative records primarily on clay tablets dating from around 1400 to 1200 BCE. This specific character represents the syllabic sound "mu" and belongs to a set of approximately 90 syllabic signs that, along with logograms, were deciphered by Michael Ventris in the early 1950s to represent an early form of Greek. As part of the Linear B Syllabary block in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane of Unicode, it enables digital preservation and study of these ancient inscriptions.

General Properties

Code Point U+10018
Version Added 4.0
Name Linear B Syllable B023 Mu
Block Linear B Syllabary
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐀘
HTML Hex Encoding 𐀘
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x80 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDC18
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010018
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\udc18

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Linear B
Script Extensions Linear B
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter