U+10036 "𐀶" Linear B Syllable B069 Tu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐀶
U+10036 "𐀶" Linear B Syllable B069 Tu is a glyph representing a specific syllabic sign 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. Deciphered by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick in the 1950s, this particular syllabogram corresponds to the sound "tu" and was part of a larger set of signs used for administrative and economic record keeping in palatial centers such as Knossos and Pylos. The character is encoded in the Unicode standard under the Linear B Syllabary block, allowing for its digital representation and scholarly study across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10036 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Syllable B069 Tu |
| Block | Linear B Syllabary |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐀶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐀶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x80 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDC36 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010036 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udc36 |