Linear B Syllable Sign B065 Ju

B065 is conventionally read as the Linear B syllable ju. That spelling represents a proposed sound value, roughly the “yu” at the start of English “you”; it is not a word on its own. Linear B grew from the earlier Linear A tradition and was adapted to write Mycenaean Greek; its palace tablets recorded goods, people and transactions.

At Knossos's Room of Chariot Tablets, the oldest surviving group of Linear B texts dates to the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the fourteenth century BCE. The later Cypriot syllabary is linked through the wider Minoan writing tradition and, like Linear B, represents open syllables (syllables that end in a vowel); it is a separate system.

What does 𐀎 mean when someone sends it?

As of 2026, 𐀎 has no settled standard chat meaning. The same shape can write the syllable ju or serve as B129, a flour logogram (a sign for the commodity itself). In tablet transcriptions, 65 appears in i-65, interpreted as a form of “son”; this supports ju, but other occurrences do not require that reading. Specialists treat ju as probable, not certain.