U+10038 "𐀸" Linear B Syllable B075 We Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐀸
U+10038 "𐀸" Linear B Syllable B075 We is a historical script symbol representing a syllable in the Linear B writing system, which was used primarily for administrative records in Mycenaean Greek from roughly 1450 to 1200 BCE. This particular character corresponds to the phonetic value "we" and was inscribed on clay tablets that documented economic transactions, such as the distribution of goods like wool, grain, and livestock. The discovery and decipherment of Linear B in the mid 20th century, led by Michael Ventris, revealed that this script encodes an early form of Greek, making U+10038 a direct link to one of the earliest attested forms of the Greek language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10038 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Syllable B075 We |
| Block | Linear B Syllabary |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐀸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐀸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x80 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDC38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010038 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udc38 |