What 𐃙 means
They may date to the late 15th or early 14th century BCE.
The oldest surviving tablets were found at Knossos, a palace center on Crete. Linear B grew from Linear A and was used to write Mycenaean Greek. Ideograms helped palace record-keepers track goods and quantities, but that broad role does not identify what B255 represented.
A historical sign label used when discussing Linear B records.
Do not call 𐃙 the dart: B254, 𐃘, is the separate sign explicitly glossed “Dart.”
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Who writes 𐃙
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1Why does 𐃙 appear as a box?
The font used by your device or app may not cover Linear B, so it shows a fallback box. A font with Linear B support can display it.
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- B255 · Linear B B255 · B255 meaning · Linear B sign · Linear B dart
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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𐃙CSS
\100D9Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𐃙
HTML hex
𐃙
CSS content
content: "\100D9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%90%83%99
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.