What 𐂋 means
It let palace clerks count male pigs as a separate category. Linear B adapted Linear A to write Mycenaean Greek; ideograms named goods and animals.
The earliest known Linear B tablets at Knossos date to the late 15th or early 14th century BCE.
Is this the boar sign or the sow sign?
It marks male pigs; the sow has a separate sign. Male/female signs classify five livestock groups: horses, sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle.
A box or blank can mean your font lacks the glyph; it is still the same text character.
A livestock mark in Mycenaean palace accounts.
Alone in a message, it may not read as “boar” to someone unfamiliar with Linear B.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 𐂋 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 𐂋
𐂋\1008BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.