U+10037 "𐀷" Linear B Syllable B054 Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐀷
U+10037 "𐀷" Linear B Syllable B054 Wa is a syllabic sign from the Linear B script, which was used in Mycenaean Greece from around 1450 to 1200 BCE for writing an early form of Greek. This specific character represents the syllable "wa" and is one of numerous phonetic signs in a writing system primarily employed for administrative and economic records on clay tablets. Deciphered by Michael Ventris in the 1950s, Linear B revealed a complex bureaucracy managing palaces, where signs like 𐀷 served as building blocks for recording goods, offerings, and personnel assignments in a Bronze Age society.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10037 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Syllable B054 Wa |
| Block | Linear B Syllabary |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐀷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐀷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x80 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDC37 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010037 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udc37 |