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Glyph for U+10021
Source: Noto Sans Linear B

U+10021 Linear B Syllable B011 Po

U+10021 was added to Unicode in version 4.0 (2003). It belongs to the block U+10000 to U+1007F Linear B Syllabary in the U+10000 to U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Linear B script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+10021 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of the Greek language. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries. The oldest Mycenaean writing dates to about 1400 BC. It is hypothesised to be descended from the older Linear A, an undeciphered earlier script potentially used for writing the Minoan language, as is the later Cypriot syllabary, which also recorded Greek. Linear B, found mainly in the palace archives at Knossos, Kydonia, Pylos, Thebes and Mycenae, disappeared with the fall of Mycenaean civilization during the Late Bronze Age collapse. The succeeding period, known as the Greek Dark Ages, provides no evidence of the use of writing.

Linear B was deciphered in 1952 by English architect and self-taught linguist Michael Ventris based on the research of American classicist Alice Kober. It is the only Bronze Age Aegean script to have been deciphered, with Linear A, Cypro-Minoan, and Cretan hieroglyphic remaining unreadable.

Linear B consists of around 87 syllabic signs and over 100 ideographic signs. These ideograms or "signifying" signs symbolize objects or commodities. They have no phonetic value and are never used as word signs in writing a sentence.

The application of Linear B appears to have been confined to administrative contexts. In all the thousands of clay tablets, a relatively small number of different people's handwriting have been detected: 45 in Pylos (west coast of the Peloponnese, in southern Greece) and 66 in Knossos (Crete). Once the palaces were destroyed, the script disappeared.

Representations

System Representation
NΒΊ 65569
UTF-8 F0 90 80 A1
UTF-16 D8 00 DC 21
UTF-32 00 01 00 21
URL-Quoted %F0%90%80%A1
HTML hex reference 𐀡
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 𐀑

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 4.0 (2003)
Unicode Name LINEAR B SYLLABLE B011 PO
Unicode 1 Name β€”
Block Linear B Syllabary
General Category Other Letter
Script Linear B
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+10021 Linear B Syllable B011 Po
Lowercase ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+10021 Linear B Syllable B011 Po
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+10021 Linear B Syllable B011 Po
Uppercase ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+10021 Linear B Syllable B011 Po
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+10021 Linear B Syllable B011 Po
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+10021 Linear B Syllable B011 Po
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+10021 Linear B Syllable B011 Po
Case Folding Glyph for U+10021 Linear B Syllable B011 Po
ASCII Hex Digit ✘
Alphabetic βœ”
Bidi Control ✘
Bidi Mirrored ✘
Composition Exclusion ✘
Case Ignorable ✘
Changes When Casefolded ✘
Changes When Casemapped ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded ✘
Changes When Lowercased ✘
Changes When Titlecased ✘
Changes When Uppercased ✘
Cased ✘
Full Composition Exclusion ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Dash ✘
Deprecated ✘
Diacritic ✘
Emoji Modifier Base ✘
Emoji Component ✘
Emoji Modifier ✘
Emoji Presentation ✘
Emoji ✘
Extender ✘
Extended Pictographic ✘
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+10021 Linear B Syllable B011 Po
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base βœ”
Grapheme Extend ✘
Grapheme Link ✘
Hex Digit ✘
Hyphen ✘
ID Continue βœ”
ID Start βœ”
IDS Binary Operator ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and ✘
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic ✘
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category β€”
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name β€”
Join Control ✘
Logical Order Exception ✘
Math ✘
Noncharacter Code Point ✘
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+10021 Linear B Syllable B011 Po
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+10021 Linear B Syllable B011 Po
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Other Grapheme Extend ✘
Other ID Continue ✘
Other ID Start ✘
Other Lowercase ✘
Other Math ✘
Other Uppercase ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark ✘
Pattern Syntax ✘
Pattern White Space ✘
Quotation Mark ✘
Regional Indicator ✘
Radical ✘
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted ✘
Sentence Terminal ✘
Terminal Punctuation ✘
Unified Ideograph ✘
Variation Selector ✘
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space ✘
XID Continue βœ”
XID Start βœ”
Expands On NFC ✘
Expands On NFD ✘
Expands On NFKC ✘
Expands On NFKD ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+10021 Linear B Syllable B011 Po
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment β€”
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+10021 Linear B Syllable B011 Po
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R