What 𐂵 means
It marks a month in Linear B records.
Linear B wrote Mycenaean Greek on palace tablets; syllables spelled words, while ideograms marked goods or categories.
A Knossos tablet from the Mycenaean palatial period, ca. 1400–1200 BC, records it. Knossos and Pylos tablets pair month signs with named months, offerings, and ritual entries. The month word also appears as the conventional Latin-letter transcription me-no; LUNA is a modern scholarly label.
Don't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1Why does 𐂵 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 𐂵
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 100B5, then Alt+X to get 𐂵.
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 b173 month”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 100b5, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𐂵CSS
\100B5Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𐂵
HTML hex
𐂵
CSS content
content: "\100B5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%90%82%B5
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.