What 𐂾 means
No specific commodity is securely identified. Linear B was a writing system used by Bronze Age Mycenaean palace offices around the Aegean. Its ideograms marked countable goods rather than spelling their names; 𐂾 is one such sign.
As of 2026, Unicode lists B183 by its catalog number alone; B183 is a modern catalog label, not an ancient object-name.
The earliest Linear B examples at Knossos, a palace centre on Crete, date slightly before the 14th century BCE. The script reached centres on the Greek mainland, and its palace use ended around 1200 BCE as Mycenaean palatial institutions collapsed. Linear B developed from Linear A, and the later Cypriot syllabary is related; neither link identifies B183's commodity.
An ancient administrative sign whose exact commodity remains unidentified.
Don't label it as a specific object.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 𐂾 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 𐂾
𐂾\100BECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.