U+100C6 "𐃆" Linear B Ideogram B230 Spear Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐃆
U+100C6 "𐃆" Linear B Ideogram B230 Spear is a historical script symbol from the Linear B writing system used in ancient Mycenaean Greece, primarily for administrative and economic records on clay tablets. This particular ideogram represents a spear, serving as a logogram or pictographic shorthand to denote the weapon itself, likely in contexts of inventory, military supplies, or tribute listings. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard under the “Linear B Ideograms” block allows scholars and digital archivists to encode and preserve this Bronze Age symbol in modern computing systems, facilitating research into Mycenaean palaeography, linguistics, and material culture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+100C6 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Ideogram B230 Spear |
| Block | Linear B Ideograms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐃆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐃆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x83 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDCC6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000100C6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udcc6 |