What 𐂉 means
Use Unicode input for U10089 or a Linear B ideogram keyboard.
A specialist Linear B keyboard lists ideograms in a separate panel and indexes them by Bennett number; choose 107M. Ordinary letter keys do not spell 𐂉.
What did the he-goat sign record?
It labeled a male goat and its counted quantity.
Linear B was used for Mycenaean Greek palace accounts. The earliest known deposits are associated with Knossos around 1450 BCE; that dates the surviving records, not this individual sign. Animal ideograms generally close a line or clause before a numeral, making 𐂉 a livestock-and-quantity label.
Linear A, an older Aegean script related to Linear B, has the corresponding AB022M sign (𐘔), also identified as a he-goat. This connects the signs through a historical script tradition, not just their appearance. Linear B carried that tradition into Mycenaean records; today, 𐂉 survives as a digital character.
Historical and specialist: it names a male goat in Linear B accounting records.
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Who writes 𐂉
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐂉 show as a box?
Under current Unicode display guidance, a box can mean the selected font lacks this glyph; the text can still contain 𐂉. A font with Linear B coverage can render it.
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How to type or find 𐂉
- Also called
- B107M · CAPm
- Search it as
- he-goat symbol · Linear B goat sign · Linear A AB022M · Mycenaean ideogram · B107M meaning
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐂉\10089Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.