U+1001B "𐀛" Linear B Syllable B030 Ni Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐀛
U+1001B "𐀛" Linear B Syllable B030 Ni is a specific glyph from the ancient Linear B script, a syllabary used primarily for administrative records in Mycenaean Greek from roughly 1450 to 1200 BCE. This character represents the phonetic syllable "ni," one of numerous signs in the Linear B system that was deciphered in the 1950s by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that historians, linguists, and digital scholars can accurately encode and display this ancient symbol in modern electronic texts, preserving a direct link to the economic and cultural documentation of the Mycenaean civilization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1001B |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Syllable B030 Ni |
| Block | Linear B Syllabary |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐀛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐀛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x80 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDC1B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001001B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udc1b |