U+1004B "𐁋" Linear B Syllable B066 Ta2 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐁋

U+1004B "𐁋" Linear B Syllable B066 Ta2 is part of the Linear B script, a syllabic writing system used in Mycenaean Greece between roughly 1450 and 1200 BCE for recording the early Greek language on clay tablets. This specific character represents the syllable "ta2", which is a variant of the more common syllable "ta" and is believed to denote a different phonetic nuance or a scribal tradition within the administrative records of palaces like Knossos and Pylos. Deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952, Linear B encodes inventories of goods, land holdings, and religious offerings, with U+1004B serving as a trace of the complex economic and linguistic structures of the Bronze Age Aegean.

General Properties

Code Point U+1004B
Version Added 4.0
Name Linear B Syllable B066 Ta2
Block Linear B Syllabary
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐁋
HTML Hex Encoding 𐁋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x81 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDC4B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001004B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\udc4b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Linear B
Script Extensions Linear B
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter