U+100CF "𐃏" Linear B Ideogram B243 Wheel Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐃏
U+100CF "𐃏" Linear B Ideogram B243 Wheel is a historical script symbol representing a wheel, used in the Linear B writing system of Mycenaean Greek civilization, which dates back to the second millennium BCE. This ideogram appears in administrative clay tablets from sites like Knossos and Pylos, where it likely denoted a spoked wheel, either as a standalone commodity or as part of chariot inventories. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard allows scholars and enthusiasts to digitally preserve and study this ancient symbol, bridging modern technology with early European record keeping.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+100CF |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Ideogram B243 Wheel |
| Block | Linear B Ideograms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐃏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐃏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x83 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDCCF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000100CF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udccf |