What 𐃚 means
No agreed ancient referent is identified.
The standard catalog gives it the number B256 but no agreed word or object.
Why was Linear B used?
Palace officials used it to keep records.
Linear B adapted Linear A, an earlier Cretan script, to write Mycenaean Greek, an early form of Greek. Palace records paired syllable signs with ideograms (signs for things) and numbers to list goods.
The oldest group from Knossos is dated to the beginning of the 14th century BC (or the end of the 15th century BC).
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why can B256 appear as a box?
A font or app without Linear B character support may show an empty box. The text still contains the same character.
How to type 𐃚
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 100DA, then Alt+X to get 𐃚.
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 b256”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 100da, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𐃚CSS
\100DACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𐃚
HTML hex
𐃚
CSS content
content: "\100DA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%90%83%9A
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.