U+100BE "𐂾" Linear B Ideogram B183 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+100BE "𐂾" Linear B Ideogram B183 is a specific symbol from the Linear B script, which was used in ancient Greece for writing Mycenaean Greek, primarily on clay tablets for administrative and economic records. This particular ideogram is associated with the category of agricultural or commodity goods, specifically representing a type of livestock or animal product, often interpreted as a pig or swine. As a part of the Linear B syllabary and ideographic system, it functioned as a logogram to denote a tangible item in palace inventories, helping scribes track resources like food supplies or sacrificial animals. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Linear B Ideograms block, ensuring its preservation and digital representation for scholarly research in historical linguistics, archaeology, and ancient economics.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𐂾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𐂾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x90 0x82 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD800 0xDCBE |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000100BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud800\udcbe |
Unicode Properties