What 𐂃 means
It marks an animal, not a sound. Separate signs mark a mare and stallion; this one leaves sex unstated.
Linear B grew from Linear A, keeping some signs and adapting others for Greek. Its earliest surviving archive is at Knossos on Crete, from the end of the 15th or start of the 14th century BCE.
What did it do on a tablet?
It labeled what a number counted. Knossos tablet Sc 230 lists horses with armour and a chariot. As of 2026, it appears mainly in scholarship and typography.
Don't confuse it with
4Combination ideas
1Designed tablet-style label: horse beside a wheeled chariot.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𐂃 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 𐂃
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 10083, then Alt+X to get 𐂃.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “linear b ideogram b105 equid”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 10083, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𐂃CSS
\10083Font support
A box means your font may lack the character; use a font with Linear B coverage.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𐂃
HTML hex
𐂃
CSS content
content: "\10083";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%90%82%83
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.