U+100A3 "𐂣" Linear B Ideogram B154 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐂣
U+100A3 "𐂣" Linear B Ideogram B154 is a specific symbol from the Linear B script, an ancient writing system used primarily for administrative purposes in Mycenaean Greece, dating to around 1450 to 1200 BCE. This ideogram, catalogued as B154, represents a commodity or item frequently recorded on clay tablets, and it is generally interpreted as a type of animal hide or skin, often associated with livestock and economic exchanges. By encoding this character, Unicode allows for the digital preservation and study of these early records, enabling scholars to more easily transcribe and analyze the economic and social structures of the Mycenaean civilization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+100A3 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Ideogram B154 |
| Block | Linear B Ideograms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐂣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐂣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x82 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDCA3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000100A3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udca3 |