U+100D5 "𐃕" Linear B Ideogram B251 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐃕
U+100D5 "𐃕" Linear B Ideogram B251 is a script sign from the ancient Linear B writing system, which was used in Mycenaean Greece primarily for administrative record keeping on clay tablets. This specific ideogram represents a type of vessel, likely a large jar or storage container, as B251 is classified among the ideograms for various pottery and liquid containers in the Linear B corpus. It falls within the Unicode Linear B Ideograms block and is encoded for use in electronic text and scholarly work, preserving a visual link to the economic and material culture of the Bronze Age Aegean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+100D5 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Ideogram B251 |
| Block | Linear B Ideograms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐃕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐃕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x83 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDCD5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000100D5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udcd5 |