What 𐀙 means
It adds “na” as one syllable in a Linear B word.
Linear B is a syllabary: a writing system whose signs represent syllables. B006 is a modern catalogue label for this sign, not an ancient word or category.
Linear B was adapted from Linear A, an earlier Aegean script whose language remains undeciphered. It wrote Mycenaean Greek in palace records of goods, deliveries, labor, and other accounts. The oldest surviving group of Linear B texts comes from the Room of the Chariot Tablets at Knossos, a palace site, and dates to the end of the 15th or beginning of the 14th century BCE.
Why does 𐀙 show as a box?
The text can be intact even when the font cannot draw this sign.
In a browser or app without a font that covers Linear B, 𐀙 may appear as a box, question mark, or blank. Its Unicode value is beyond the first 65,536 code points, so software limited to Unicode’s first range may mishandle it.
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Who writes 𐀙
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Questions people ask
1Is 𐀙 a Greek alphabet letter?
No. It is a Linear B sign for one syllable, used in records written in Mycenaean Greek; the later Greek alphabet is a separate writing system.
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How to type or find 𐀙
- Also called
- Linear B na · na sign · na syllabogram
- Search it as
- U+10019 · type Linear B na · Linear A Linear B · Linear B keyboard
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐀙\10019Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.