What 𐃶 means
A vessel sign for bull-head rhyta.
At Knossos, tablet KN K 872 records two bull-head rhyta for libations (ritual drink offerings).
Linear B developed from Linear A to write Mycenaean Greek and served palace bookkeeping. Among its earliest tablet groups is the Room of the Chariot Tablets at Knossos, dated probably c. 1390–1370/60 BCE. That date belongs to the tablet group, not necessarily B227's first use.
An archival label for one vessel type.
If 𐃶 appears as a box, the font lacks this Linear B glyph; the text still contains the same character.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1What is a rhyton?
A rhyton is a vessel for pouring a ritual offering; the examples linked to B227 have bull heads.
How to type 𐃶
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 100F6, then Alt+X to get 𐃶.
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 vessel b227”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 100f6, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𐃶CSS
\100F6Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𐃶
HTML hex
𐃶
CSS content
content: "\100F6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%90%83%B6
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On screen
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Code points
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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.