U+100BC "𐂼" Linear B Ideogram B181 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐂼
U+100BC "𐂼" Linear B Ideogram B181 is a specific sign from the Linear B script, an ancient writing system used primarily for administrative records in Mycenaean Greece around 1450 to 1200 BCE. This ideogram functioned as a logogram representing a particular commodity or item in palace inventories, with its conventional classification as B181 suggesting it belonged to a numbered series of standard symbols used to denote goods or objects. While the exact referent of Ideogram B181 remains debated among scholars, it is generally associated with a type of agricultural or craft product, such as a specific kind of vessel, textile, or livestock, reflecting the bureaucratic nature of Linear B as a tool for economic accounting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+100BC |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Ideogram B181 |
| Block | Linear B Ideograms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐂼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐂼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x82 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDCBC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000100BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udcbc |