U+100CB "𐃋" Linear B Ideogram B236 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐃋
U+100CB "𐃋" Linear B Ideogram B236 is a symbol from the Linear B script, which was used in ancient Mycenaean Greece for administrative and economic record keeping on clay tablets. This specific ideogram represents an "arrow" or "javelin," corresponding to a pictographic sign that denoted a type of weapon or military equipment. It forms part of the standardized set of logograms employed by Mycenaean scribes to efficiently catalogue commodities and goods without spelling out the full words, providing modern scholars with crucial insights into the material culture, economy, and military organization of the Mycenaean civilization from approximately 1450 to 1200 BCE.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+100CB |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Ideogram B236 |
| Block | Linear B Ideograms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐃋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐃋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x83 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDCCB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000100CB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udccb |