U+100EF "𐃯" Linear B Ideogram Vessel B216 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐃯
U+100EF "𐃯" Linear B Ideogram Vessel B216 is a script symbol from the ancient Linear B writing system used in Mycenaean Greece, specifically representing a type of container or vessel designated as ideogram B216, likely for administrative recording on clay tablets. This character is part of the Linear B Ideograms block within Unicode, which encodes pictographic signs that denote commodities, objects, or measures rather than phonetic sounds. Historically, ideograms like this one were employed by scribes to catalog goods such as liquids, grains, or manufactured items in palace economies, and its precise meaning continues to be studied through archaeological and linguistic analysis.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+100EF |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Ideogram Vessel B216 |
| Block | Linear B Ideograms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐃯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐃯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x83 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDCEF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000100EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udcef |