What 𐂡 means
It represents an ox hide in Linear B records. This ideogram labels an animal product; unlike a syllabogram, it does not stand for a spoken syllable.
Linear B lists tracked goods. In this kind of record, an adjacent numeral tells how many units of the named commodity were recorded.
How did Linear B develop?
Linear B adapted an older script to record Mycenaean Greek. It grew from Linear A, a writing system whose language remains undeciphered.
The oldest surviving Linear B texts from Knossos date to the end of the 15th or beginning of the 14th century BCE. The system served palace bookkeeping: tablets recorded economic transactions and goods entering or leaving palace stores.
What does it mean when someone sends 𐂡?
A lone modern send is best read as a reference to an ancient script. The historical reading is specific, but without the tablet’s accounting setting or a sender’s gloss, the character alone does not tell you what they intend in a chat.
Archival and specialist; without its tablet context, a modern send reads as a reference to an ancient sign.
Alone, it cannot tell you whether the sender means the old sign or the ox hide.
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4Questions people ask
2Does 𐂡 have a standard text-message meaning?
No. As of 2026, no standard text-message meaning is documented for B152. A lone send gives you too little context to know whether the sender means the old sign or an ox hide.
Why does 𐂡 sometimes appear as a box?
Font coverage. A box means the selected font lacks this glyph. As of 2026, many common fonts still omit Linear B; a font with Linear B coverage, such as Noto Sans Linear B, can render it.
How to type 𐂡
𐂡\100A1Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.