U+100C9 "𐃉" Linear B Ideogram B233 Sword Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐃉
U+100C9 "𐃉" Linear B Ideogram B233 Sword is a script symbol from the historic Linear B writing system used in Mycenaean Greece, primarily for administrative records on clay tablets. This specific ideogram represents a sword, functioning as a pictographic shorthand in the accounting of military equipment or trade goods, likely denoting a particular type or standard of blade at the time. The character is part of the Linear B Ideograms block in Unicode, which encodes these ancient symbols to allow modern digital preservation and study of early Greek civilization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+100C9 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Ideogram B233 Sword |
| Block | Linear B Ideograms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐃉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐃉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x83 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDCC9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000100C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udcc9 |