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 |