What 𐀈 means
It writes a sound, not an object name. In scholarly transliteration—a Latin-letter rendering of sign values—do means the consonant d followed by vowel o in one spoken beat. Linear B signs spell words syllable by syllable.
Linear B adapted signs from the earlier Minoan script Linear A to write Mycenaean Greek, an early form of Greek. By 2026, the earliest known tablet group is from Knossos. Surviving records span roughly 1450–1150 BCE and mostly document palace administration on clay.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 𐀈 show as a box?
It can be a missing-glyph fallback: the display font lacks 𐀈, so a box stands in for the unavailable character, not another Linear B sign.
How to type 𐀈
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 10008, then Alt+X to get 𐀈.
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 syllable b014 do”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 10008, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𐀈CSS
\10008Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𐀈
HTML hex
𐀈
CSS content
content: "\10008";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%90%80%88
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.