U+10057 "𐁗" Linear B Symbol B063 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐁗
U+10057 "𐁗" Linear B Symbol B063 is a character from the Linear B script, which was used in ancient Greece, particularly on Crete and the Greek mainland, for writing Mycenaean Greek from around 1450 to 1200 BCE. This specific symbol, designated as B063 in the standard catalog of Linear B signs, represents a syllabic value (often transcribed as "ro" or a similar sound) that was part of the administrative and economic records inscribed on clay tablets. It belongs to the Linear B Syllabary block in Unicode, which was added to enable digital representation and study of this script for historians, linguists, and archaeologists working with Bronze Age texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10057 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Symbol B063 |
| Block | Linear B Syllabary |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐁗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐁗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x81 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDC57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010057 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udc57 |