U+10050 "𐁐" Linear B Symbol B018 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐁐
U+10050 "𐁐" Linear B Symbol B018 is a glyph from the Linear B script, which was used in Mycenaean Greece during the Late Bronze Age, primarily for administrative and economic records. This specific symbol represents one of the syllabic signs in the Linear B syllabary, identified by the code B018, and it corresponds to the phonetic value /ra/. Deciphered by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick in the 1950s, Linear B inscriptions were predominantly found on clay tablets preserved in sites like Knossos and Pylos, and the symbol B018 serves as a vital component in reconstructing the early Greek language and its writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10050 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Symbol B018 |
| Block | Linear B Syllabary |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐁐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐁐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x81 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDC50 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010050 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udc50 |