U+100C9 "𐃉" Linear B Ideogram B233 Sword Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+100C9 "𐃉" Linear B Ideogram B233 Sword is a script symbol from the historic Linear B writing system used in Mycenaean Greece, primarily for administrative records on clay tablets. This specific ideogram represents a sword, functioning as a pictographic shorthand in the accounting of military equipment or trade goods, likely denoting a particular type or standard of blade at the time. The character is part of the Linear B Ideograms block in Unicode, which encodes these ancient symbols to allow modern digital preservation and study of early Greek civilization.
General Properties
Code Point
U+100C9
Name
Linear B Ideogram B233 Sword
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
𐃉
HTML Hex Encoding
𐃉
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x90 0x83 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD800 0xDCC9
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000100C9
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud800\udcc9
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Linear B