U+100F8 "𐃸" Linear B Ideogram Vessel B229 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐃸
U+100F8 "𐃸" Linear B Ideogram Vessel B229 is a script symbol from the ancient Linear B syllabary, used primarily in Mycenaean Greece for administrative record keeping on clay tablets, and it specifically represents a type of vessel or container, likely a jar or pot, designated by the code B229 in the standard classification system of Linear B ideograms. This character falls within the Linear B Ideograms block of the Unicode standard, which was added to facilitate the digital representation and study of these early Bronze Age texts, allowing scholars to encode and analyze the pictorial symbols that denote commodities, goods, and containers without relying solely on phonetic transcriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+100F8 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Linear B Ideogram Vessel B229 |
| Block | Linear B Ideograms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐃸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐃸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x83 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDCF8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000100F8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udcf8 |