U+100CF Linear B Ideogram B243 Wheel
U+100CF was added in Unicode version 4.0 in 2003. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Linear B script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+100CF forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of the Greek language. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries, the earliest known examples dating to around 1400 BC. It is adapted from the earlier Linear A, an undeciphered script perhaps used for writing the Minoan language, as is the later Cypriot syllabary, which also recorded Greek. Linear B, found mainly in the palace archives at Knossos, Kydonia, Pylos, Thebes and Mycenae, disappeared with the fall of Mycenaean civilization during the Late Bronze Age collapse. The succeeding period, known as the Greek Dark Ages, provides no evidence of the use of writing.
Linear B was deciphered in 1952 by English architect and self-taught linguist Michael Ventris based on the research of American classicist Alice Kober. It is the only Bronze Age Aegean script to have been deciphered, with Linear A, Cypro-Minoan, and Cretan hieroglyphic remaining unreadable.
Linear B consists of around 87 syllabic signs and over 100 ideographic signs. These ideograms or "signifying" signs symbolize objects or commodities. They have no phonetic value and are never used as word signs in writing a sentence.
The application of Linear B texts appear to have been mostly confined to administrative contexts, mainly at Mycenaean palatial sites. In the handwriting of all the thousands of clay tablets, a relatively small number of scribes have been detected: 45 in Pylos (west coast of the Peloponnese, in Southern Greece) and 66 in Knossos (Crete). The use of Linear B signs on trade objects like amphora was more widespread. Once the palaces were destroyed, the script disappeared.
Representations
System | Representation |
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NΒΊ | 65743 |
UTF-8 | F0 90 83 8F |
UTF-16 | D8 00 DC CF |
UTF-32 | 00 01 00 CF |
URL-Quoted | %F0%90%83%8F |
HTML hex reference | 𐃏 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°ΒΖΒ |
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 90 30 95 37 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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