U+10055 "𐁕" Linear B Symbol B049 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐁕
U+10055 "𐁕" Linear B Symbol B049 is a script character from the Linear B syllabary, an ancient writing system used in Mycenaean Greece around 1450 to 1200 BCE primarily for administrative records on clay tablets. This specific symbol corresponds to the phonogram *49, which is conventionally transcribed as "ro2" or "ru" and appears in Linear B texts as part of syllabic writing for the Mycenaean Greek language. The character is encoded in the Unicode Linear B Syllabary block, which was added to version 4.0 in 2003 to support scholarly study and digital preservation of this historical script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10055 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Symbol B049 |
| Block | Linear B Syllabary |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐁕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐁕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x81 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDC55 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010055 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udc55 |