Home U+10000 to U+1007F Linear B Syllabary
Glyph for U+1003A
Source: Noto Sans Linear B

U+1003A Linear B Syllable B042 Wo

U+1003A 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+1003A 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 was a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of Greek. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries. The oldest Mycenaean writing dates to about 1400 BC. It is descended from the older Linear A, an undeciphered earlier script 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, Cydonia, 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, deciphered by English architect and self-taught linguist Michael Ventrisโ€”based on the research of American classicist Alice Koberโ€”is the only Bronze Age Aegean script to have thus far been deciphered.

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 "hands" 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
Nยบ 65594
UTF-8 F0 90 80 BA
UTF-16 D8 00 DC 3A
UTF-32 00 01 00 3A
URL-Quoted %F0%90%80%BA
HTML hex reference 𐀺
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake รฐยโ‚ฌยบ

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 4.0 (2003)
Unicode Name LINEAR B SYLLABLE B042 WO
Unicode 1 Name โ€”
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+1003A Linear B Syllable B042 Wo
Lowercase โœ˜
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+1003A Linear B Syllable B042 Wo
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+1003A Linear B Syllable B042 Wo
Uppercase โœ˜
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+1003A Linear B Syllable B042 Wo
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+1003A Linear B Syllable B042 Wo
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+1003A Linear B Syllable B042 Wo
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+1003A Linear B Syllable B042 Wo
Case Folding Glyph for U+1003A Linear B Syllable B042 Wo
ASCII Hex Digit โœ˜
Alphabetic โœ”
Bidi Control โœ˜
Bidi Mirrored โœ˜
Composition Exclusion โœ˜
Case Ignorable โœ˜
Changes When Casefolded โœ˜
Changes When Casemapped โœ˜
Changes When NFKC Casefolded โœ˜
Changes When Lowercased โœ˜
Changes When Titlecased โœ˜
Changes When Uppercased โœ˜
Cased โœ˜
Full Composition Exclusion โœ˜
Default Ignorable Code Point โœ˜
Dash โœ˜
Deprecated โœ˜
Diacritic โœ˜
Emoji Modifier Base โœ˜
Emoji Component โœ˜
Emoji Modifier โœ˜
Emoji Presentation โœ˜
Emoji โœ˜
Extender โœ˜
Extended Pictographic โœ˜
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+1003A Linear B Syllable B042 Wo
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base โœ”
Grapheme Extend โœ˜
Grapheme Link โœ˜
Hex Digit โœ˜
Hyphen โœ˜
ID Continue โœ”
ID Start โœ”
IDS Binary Operator โœ˜
IDS Trinary Operator and โœ˜
Ideographic โœ˜
Indic Mantra Category โ€”
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name โ€”
Join Control โœ˜
Logical Order Exception โœ˜
Math โœ˜
Noncharacter Code Point โœ˜
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+1003A Linear B Syllable B042 Wo
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic โœ˜
Other Default Ignorable Code Point โœ˜
Other Grapheme Extend โœ˜
Other ID Continue โœ˜
Other ID Start โœ˜
Other Lowercase โœ˜
Other Math โœ˜
Other Uppercase โœ˜
Prepended Concatenation Mark โœ˜
Pattern Syntax โœ˜
Pattern White Space โœ˜
Quotation Mark โœ˜
Regional Indicator โœ˜
Radical โœ˜
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted โœ˜
Sentence Terminal โœ˜
Terminal Punctuation โœ˜
Unified Ideograph โœ˜
Variation Selector โœ˜
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space โœ˜
XID Continue โœ”
XID Start โœ”
Expands On NFC โœ˜
Expands On NFD โœ˜
Expands On NFKC โœ˜
Expands On NFKD โœ˜
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+1003A Linear B Syllable B042 Wo
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment โ€”
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+1003A Linear B Syllable B042 Wo
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R