What 𐁐 means
No ancient sound or word value is confirmed.
Scholars use an asterisk and number rather than a sound-based spelling for an unknown Linear B sign; this notation is called transnumeration. Here, *18 means the reading is unresolved—it is a catalog notation, not an ancient word to pronounce.
Linear B developed from Linear A and was adapted to write Mycenaean Greek. Palace officials used it for economic records: lists of goods and transactions on clay tablets, labels, and clay tags marked with seals. The oldest surviving group, Knossos’s Room of Chariot Tablets, dates to the beginning of the 14th century BCE; some chronologies place it at the end of the 15th century BCE.
How do I type Linear B B018?
Use a Linear B input layout or your system’s character picker.
A specialist Mac Linear B layout documented in 2009 accepts *18 for an unresolved sign; other layouts may use different keys.
Scholarly and catalog-like: it identifies an unresolved Linear B sign rather than a readable word.
Treat `*18` as a notation for an unknown reading, not as a sound or translation.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 𐁐 look different in some fonts?
Its outline depends on the font: a font with this character may draw it differently, while one without it may show a missing-character box.
How to type 𐁐
𐁐\10050Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.