U+100D9 "𐃙" Linear B Ideogram B255 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐃙
U+100D9 "𐃙" Linear B Ideogram B255 is part of the ancient script known as Linear B, which was used primarily for administrative records in Mycenaean Greek civilization around 1450 to 1200 BCE. This specific ideogram, cataloged as B255, represents a commodity or object, though its exact meaning is not definitively known and is often interpreted by scholars based on its contextual use on clay tablets. It belongs to a set of pictographic symbols that denote goods such as agricultural products, livestock, or manufactured items, and its inclusion in Unicode allows for its digital representation and study in modern linguistic and archaeological research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+100D9 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Ideogram B255 |
| Block | Linear B Ideograms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐃙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐃙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x83 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDCD9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000100D9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udcd9 |