U+101D9 "𐇙" Phaistos Disc Sign Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐇙
U+101D9 "𐇙" Phaistos Disc Sign Arrow is a symbol from the undeciphered Phaistos Disc, a clay artifact discovered in Crete in 1908 and dated to the Minoan Bronze Age. This particular sign depicts an arrow or dart shape, and it is one of 45 distinct pictographic symbols stamped into the disc using movable type. Scholars classify it as a potential ideogram or phonetic glyph within a still unknown writing system, though its exact meaning and linguistic value remain unknown. The character was added to the Unicode Standard in version 5.1, released in 2008, as part of the Phaistos Disc block to support academic study and digital preservation of this enigmatic script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+101D9 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Phaistos Disc Sign Arrow |
| Block | Phaistos Disc |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐇙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐇙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x87 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDDD9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000101D9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\uddd9 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |