U+1008A "𐂊" Linear B Ideogram B108F Sow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐂊
U+1008A "𐂊" Linear B Ideogram B108F Sow is a symbol from the ancient Linear B script used primarily in Mycenaean Greece for administrative records on clay tablets. This specific ideogram represents a sow, or adult female pig, and was employed in palace inventories to denote livestock, likely for purposes of tracking agricultural resources, ration allocations, or sacrificial offerings. Its inclusion in Unicode allows scholars and enthusiasts to digitally represent and study these early economic texts without needing specialized fonts, preserving a direct link to Bronze Age accounting practices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1008A |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Ideogram B108F Sow |
| Block | Linear B Ideograms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐂊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐂊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x82 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDC8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001008A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udc8a |