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Linear B Syllabary

U+10000 – U+1007F   (65536–65663)

The Linear B Syllabary range was introduced with version 4.0 of the Unicode Standard and is located in Plane 1 (the Supplementary Multilingual Plane). Windows XP and later versions support supplementary characters by default. In Windows 2000, you need to enable support for supplementary characters. These characters cannot easily be displayed in earlier versions of Windows. Linear B also uses pictorial signs, which can be found in the Linear B Ideograms range.

The Linear B script was used in ancient Crete between 1400 and 1200 B.C. for a Greek dialect.

The characters that appear in the “Character” columns of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.

You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Aegean, ALPHABETUM Unicode, Code2001, EversonMono, Free Idg Serif, MPH 2B Damase and Penuturesu.

To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, or Apple’s Character Palette.

If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10000.pdf.

Character
(decimal)
DecimalCharacter
(hex)
HexName
𐀀65536𐀀10000LINEAR B SYLLABLE B008 A
𐀁65537𐀁10001LINEAR B SYLLABLE B038 E
𐀂65538𐀂10002LINEAR B SYLLABLE B028 I
𐀃65539𐀃10003LINEAR B SYLLABLE B061 O
𐀄65540𐀄10004LINEAR B SYLLABLE B010 U
𐀅65541𐀅10005LINEAR B SYLLABLE B001 DA
𐀆65542𐀆10006LINEAR B SYLLABLE B045 DE
𐀇65543𐀇10007LINEAR B SYLLABLE B007 DI
𐀈65544𐀈10008LINEAR B SYLLABLE B014 DO
𐀉65545𐀉10009LINEAR B SYLLABLE B051 DU
𐀊65546𐀊1000ALINEAR B SYLLABLE B057 JA
𐀋65547𐀋1000BLINEAR B SYLLABLE B046 JE
𐀍65549𐀍1000DLINEAR B SYLLABLE B036 JO
𐀎65550𐀎1000ELINEAR B SYLLABLE B065 JU
𐀏65551𐀏1000FLINEAR B SYLLABLE B077 KA
𐀐65552𐀐10010LINEAR B SYLLABLE B044 KE
𐀑65553𐀑10011LINEAR B SYLLABLE B067 KI
𐀒65554𐀒10012LINEAR B SYLLABLE B070 KO
𐀓65555𐀓10013LINEAR B SYLLABLE B081 KU
𐀔65556𐀔10014LINEAR B SYLLABLE B080 MA
𐀕65557𐀕10015LINEAR B SYLLABLE B013 ME
𐀖65558𐀖10016LINEAR B SYLLABLE B073 MI
𐀗65559𐀗10017LINEAR B SYLLABLE B015 MO
𐀘65560𐀘10018LINEAR B SYLLABLE B023 MU
𐀙65561𐀙10019LINEAR B SYLLABLE B006 NA
𐀚65562𐀚1001ALINEAR B SYLLABLE B024 NE
𐀛65563𐀛1001BLINEAR B SYLLABLE B030 NI
𐀜65564𐀜1001CLINEAR B SYLLABLE B052 NO
𐀝65565𐀝1001DLINEAR B SYLLABLE B055 NU
𐀞65566𐀞1001ELINEAR B SYLLABLE B003 PA
𐀟65567𐀟1001FLINEAR B SYLLABLE B072 PE
𐀠65568𐀠10020LINEAR B SYLLABLE B039 PI
𐀡65569𐀡10021LINEAR B SYLLABLE B011 PO
𐀢65570𐀢10022LINEAR B SYLLABLE B050 PU
𐀣65571𐀣10023LINEAR B SYLLABLE B016 QA
𐀤65572𐀤10024LINEAR B SYLLABLE B078 QE
𐀥65573𐀥10025LINEAR B SYLLABLE B021 QI
𐀦65574𐀦10026LINEAR B SYLLABLE B032 QO
𐀨65576𐀨10028LINEAR B SYLLABLE B060 RA
𐀩65577𐀩10029LINEAR B SYLLABLE B027 RE
𐀪65578𐀪1002ALINEAR B SYLLABLE B053 RI
𐀫65579𐀫1002BLINEAR B SYLLABLE B002 RO
𐀬65580𐀬1002CLINEAR B SYLLABLE B026 RU
𐀭65581𐀭1002DLINEAR B SYLLABLE B031 SA
𐀮65582𐀮1002ELINEAR B SYLLABLE B009 SE
𐀯65583𐀯1002FLINEAR B SYLLABLE B041 SI
𐀰65584𐀰10030LINEAR B SYLLABLE B012 SO
𐀱65585𐀱10031LINEAR B SYLLABLE B058 SU
𐀲65586𐀲10032LINEAR B SYLLABLE B059 TA
𐀳65587𐀳10033LINEAR B SYLLABLE B004 TE
𐀴65588𐀴10034LINEAR B SYLLABLE B037 TI
𐀵65589𐀵10035LINEAR B SYLLABLE B005 TO
𐀶65590𐀶10036LINEAR B SYLLABLE B069 TU
𐀷65591𐀷10037LINEAR B SYLLABLE B054 WA
𐀸65592𐀸10038LINEAR B SYLLABLE B075 WE
𐀹65593𐀹10039LINEAR B SYLLABLE B040 WI
𐀺65594𐀺1003ALINEAR B SYLLABLE B042 WO
𐀼65596𐀼1003CLINEAR B SYLLABLE B017 ZA
𐀽65597𐀽1003DLINEAR B SYLLABLE B074 ZE
𐀿65599𐀿1003FLINEAR B SYLLABLE B020 ZO
𐁀65600𐁀10040LINEAR B SYLLABLE B025 A2
𐁁65601𐁁10041LINEAR B SYLLABLE B043 A3
𐁂65602𐁂10042LINEAR B SYLLABLE B085 AU
𐁃65603𐁃10043LINEAR B SYLLABLE B071 DWE
𐁄65604𐁄10044LINEAR B SYLLABLE B090 DWO
𐁅65605𐁅10045LINEAR B SYLLABLE B048 NWA
𐁆65606𐁆10046LINEAR B SYLLABLE B029 PU2
𐁇65607𐁇10047LINEAR B SYLLABLE B062 PTE
𐁈65608𐁈10048LINEAR B SYLLABLE B076 RA2
𐁉65609𐁉10049LINEAR B SYLLABLE B033 RA3
𐁊65610𐁊1004ALINEAR B SYLLABLE B068 RO2
𐁋65611𐁋1004BLINEAR B SYLLABLE B066 TA2
𐁌65612𐁌1004CLINEAR B SYLLABLE B087 TWE
𐁍65613𐁍1004DLINEAR B SYLLABLE B091 TWO
𐁐65616𐁐10050LINEAR B SYMBOL B018
𐁑65617𐁑10051LINEAR B SYMBOL B019
𐁒65618𐁒10052LINEAR B SYMBOL B022
𐁓65619𐁓10053LINEAR B SYMBOL B034
𐁔65620𐁔10054LINEAR B SYMBOL B047
𐁕65621𐁕10055LINEAR B SYMBOL B049
𐁖65622𐁖10056LINEAR B SYMBOL B056
𐁗65623𐁗10057LINEAR B SYMBOL B063
𐁘65624𐁘10058LINEAR B SYMBOL B064
𐁙65625𐁙10059LINEAR B SYMBOL B079
𐁚65626𐁚1005ALINEAR B SYMBOL B082
𐁛65627𐁛1005BLINEAR B SYMBOL B083
𐁜65628𐁜1005CLINEAR B SYMBOL B086
𐁝65629𐁝1005DLINEAR B SYMBOL B089

Copyright © 2003–2009 Alan Wood

The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 4.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2003 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode ftp site (ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in June 2003.

Created 18th July 2003   Last updated 25th November 2009

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