U+10040 "𐁀" Linear B Syllable B025 A2 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐁀
U+10040 "𐁀" Linear B Syllable B025 A2 is a syllabic sign from the Linear B script, an ancient writing system used primarily for recording Mycenaean Greek on clay tablets dating from roughly 1450 to 1200 BCE. This particular syllable, transliterated as "a2," represents a specific phonetic value in the syllabary, which consists of approximately 87 distinct signs used to write syllables rather than individual letters. The character is part of the Linear B Syllabary block in the Unicode standard, encoded in Plane 1 (the Supplementary Multilingual Plane), and is essential for digital representation of archaeological texts, allowing scholars to transcribe and analyze ancient administrative records found at sites like Knossos and Pylos.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10040 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Syllable B025 A2 |
| Block | Linear B Syllabary |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐁀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐁀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x81 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDC40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010040 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udc40 |