U+100D6 "𐃖" Linear B Ideogram B252 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐃖
U+100D6 "𐃖" Linear B Ideogram B252 is a script symbol from the ancient Linear B writing system, which was used in Mycenaean Greece for administrative and economic records before the Greek alphabet was developed. This particular ideogram, cataloged as B252, represents a known commodity or item, though its precise meaning is debated among scholars, often interpreted as a type of vessel or container based on archaeological context and syllabic tablet evidence. It forms part of the Linear B Ideograms block in Unicode, ensuring that these historically significant symbols are preserved and digitally represented for academic study and digital text encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+100D6 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Ideogram B252 |
| Block | Linear B Ideograms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐃖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐃖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x83 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDCD6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000100D6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udcd6 |