U+10056 "𐁖" Linear B Symbol B056 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐁖

U+10056 "𐁖" Linear B Symbol B056 is an ancient script character representing a specific syllabogram or ideogram from the Linear B writing system used in Mycenaean Greece during the Late Bronze Age, primarily for administrative records inscribed on clay tablets. This particular symbol, identified as B056 by modern scholars, corresponds to a phonetic value or a commodity marker within the Linear B syllabary, which was deciphered in the 20th century as an early form of Greek. The inclusion of this character in Unicode ensures that scholars, historians, and linguists can digitally encode, preserve, and study these ancient texts, facilitating research into the economic, social, and linguistic aspects of the Mycenaean civilization without loss of fidelity.

General Properties

Code Point U+10056
Version Added 4.0
Name Linear B Symbol B056
Block Linear B Syllabary
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐁖
HTML Hex Encoding 𐁖
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x81 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDC56
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010056
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\udc56

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