U+1008B "𐂋" Linear B Ideogram B108M Boar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐂋
U+1008B "𐂋" Linear B Ideogram B108M Boar is a specific glyph representing the ideogram for a boar from the Linear B script, an ancient writing system used by Mycenaean Greeks for administrative records on clay tablets between roughly 1450 and 1200 BCE. This particular sign, cataloged as B108M, depicts a pig or boar and was used in palatial inventories to denote livestock or possibly resources derived from the animal, such as meat or hides. As part of the Linear B Ideograms block in Unicode, it helps scholars and digital humanities projects preserve and study the economic and linguistic details of Bronze Age Aegean civilizations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1008B |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Ideogram B108M Boar |
| Block | Linear B Ideograms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐂋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐂋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x82 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDC8B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001008B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udc8b |