U+100B1 "𐂱" Linear B Ideogram B169 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐂱
U+100B1 "𐂱" Linear B Ideogram B169 is a specific symbol from the Linear B script, an ancient syllabary used for writing Mycenaean Greek during the Late Bronze Age, primarily on clay tablets found at sites like Knossos and Pylos. This particular ideogram, cataloged as B169, likely represents a commodity or item in the administrative and economic records that Linear B tablets were designed to document, such as agricultural products, livestock, or manufactured goods. Its precise meaning is interpreted through archaeological and linguistic comparison with related ideograms, though the exact nature of B169 may vary among scholars, as Linear B ideograms often denote standardised categories in palace inventories.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+100B1 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Ideogram B169 |
| Block | Linear B Ideograms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐂱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐂱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x82 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDCB1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000100B1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udcb1 |