U+100AE "𐂮" Linear B Ideogram B166 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐂮
U+100AE "𐂮" Linear B Ideogram B166 is a symbolic representation from the ancient Linear B script used primarily for administrative record keeping in Mycenaean Greek civilization, and it specifically denotes a type of livestock or agricultural commodity, most commonly interpreted as a pig or swine. This ideogram belongs to a class of logographic signs that allowed scribes to efficiently catalog goods, animals, and resources on clay tablets without spelling out entire words. Its inclusion in Unicode enables scholars and enthusiasts to digitally preserve, study, and display this crucial piece of early writing system history, linking modern technology with Bronze Age bureaucracy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+100AE |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Ideogram B166 |
| Block | Linear B Ideograms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐂮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐂮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x82 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDCAE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000100AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udcae |