U+100B6 "𐂶" Linear B Ideogram B174 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐂶
U+100B6 "𐂶" Linear B Ideogram B174 is a script symbol from the ancient Linear B syllabary used primarily for administrative records in Mycenaean Greek civilization during the Late Bronze Age. This particular ideogram, catalogued as B174, represents the concept of a type of livestock or animal product, likely related to a domesticated animal such as a goat or sheep, though its precise meaning remains debated among scholars due to the fragmentary nature of surviving clay tablets. It belongs to the Linear B Ideograms block of the Unicode Standard, which preserves these historical characters for digital representation and study of early Aegean writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+100B6 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Ideogram B174 |
| Block | Linear B Ideograms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐂶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐂶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x82 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDCB6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000100B6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udcb6 |