U+100DA "𐃚" Linear B Ideogram B256 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐃚
U+100DA "𐃚" Linear B Ideogram B256 is a specific symbol from the ancient Linear B script, which was used primarily for writing Mycenaean Greek on clay tablets found in sites like Knossos and Pylos, dating from roughly 1450 to 1200 BCE. This particular ideogram, cataloged as B256, is understood to represent "half," likely referring to a fractional measure or a specific unit of capacity or weight, often appearing in administrative and economic records related to the accounting of commodities such as grain or liquids.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+100DA |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Ideogram B256 |
| Block | Linear B Ideograms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐃚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐃚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x83 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDCDA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000100DA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udcda |