U+1004D "𐁍" Linear B Syllable B091 Two Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1004D "𐁍" Linear B Syllable B091 Two is a glyph representing the specific Linear B syllabogram that corresponded to the numeric value "two" in the Mycenaean Greek writing system, which was used primarily for administrative and economic records on clay tablets in the Late Bronze Age, around 1450 to 1200 BCE. This character signifies that the ancient script employed a combination of syllabic and ideographic symbols, where B091 was one of several syllabic signs that also served as a numeral, helping scribes efficiently record quantities of goods, people, or resources in the palace economies of Mycenaean Greece, such as at Knossos and Pylos. Its encoding in Unicode preserves a direct link to this early European literacy, enabling modern scholars and enthusiasts to display and study this precise historical symbol in digital texts alongside other Linear B characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+1004D
Version Added 4.0
Name Linear B Syllable B091 Two
Block Linear B Syllabary
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐁍
HTML Hex Encoding 𐁍
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x81 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDC4D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001004D
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\udc4d

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