U+10025 "𐀥" Linear B Syllable B021 Qi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐀥
U+10025 "𐀥" Linear B Syllable B021 Qi is a syllabic sign from the Linear B script, which was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of the Greek language, on clay tablets dating from roughly 1450 to 1200 BCE. This specific character represents the syllable "qi" and is part of a syllabary that was deciphered in the 1950s by Michael Ventris, revealing administrative records from Mycenaean palaces. As a digitized symbol, it belongs to the Linear B Syllabary block in Unicode, allowing modern scholars and enthusiasts to accurately represent and study this ancient writing system in electronic texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10025 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Syllable B021 Qi |
| Block | Linear B Syllabary |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐀥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐀥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x80 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDC25 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010025 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udc25 |