U+100C6 "𐃆" Linear B Ideogram B230 Spear Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+100C6 "𐃆" Linear B Ideogram B230 Spear is a historical script symbol from the Linear B writing system used in ancient Mycenaean Greece, primarily for administrative and economic records on clay tablets. This particular ideogram represents a spear, serving as a logogram or pictographic shorthand to denote the weapon itself, likely in contexts of inventory, military supplies, or tribute listings. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard under the “Linear B Ideograms” block allows scholars and digital archivists to encode and preserve this Bronze Age symbol in modern computing systems, facilitating research into Mycenaean palaeography, linguistics, and material culture.
General Properties
Code Point
U+100C6
Name
Linear B Ideogram B230 Spear
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
𐃆
HTML Hex Encoding
𐃆
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x90 0x83 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD800 0xDCC6
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000100C6
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud800\udcc6
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Linear B