What 𐃭 means
It marked the vessel being listed.
A Linear B ideogram represents a thing rather than a syllable. Tablets pair these object signs with syllabic writing: the syllables spell Mycenaean Greek, while 𐃭 identifies the item being accounted for.
Linear B developed from Linear A to write Mycenaean Greek. At Knossos on Crete, the Room of the Chariot Tablets, an archive of clay records, is treated as the earliest Linear B archive on Crete in scholarship as of 2026. Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A, and Linear B belong to a broader history of writing on Crete, but similar-looking signs across them do not establish the same reading.
Its outline is drawn by the active font, so the glyph can vary across typefaces.
Read it as a record mark, not a syllable to pronounce.
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Who writes 𐃭
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐃭 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.
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How to type or find 𐃭
- Search it as
- B214 · Linear B vessel · vessel ideogram · Mycenaean Linear B
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐃭\100EDCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.