What 𐂷 means
Its broad reading is “tree”; “olive tree” is narrower.
Bennett’s catalogue labels B176 ARBOR (“tree”) and records olea (“olive tree”) as a narrower gloss; Unicode labels it TREE. On tablets, the ideogram marks the item counted beside it.
How does 𐂷 fit into Linear B?
Linear B adapted the earlier Linear A script.
The earliest surviving Linear B archive is the Room of the Chariot Tablets at Knossos, dated Late Minoan II–IIIA1; that dates the archive, not this sign’s first use. Bennett’s catalogue cross-references B176 with B175, another tree sign.
Specialist and archival; its meaning comes from Linear B tablet records.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 𐂷 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 𐂷
𐂷\100B7Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.
