U+101DB "𐇛" Phaistos Disc Sign Shield Unicode Character

U+101DB "𐇛" Phaistos Disc Sign Shield is a pictographic symbol from the mysterious Phaistos Disc, a clay artifact discovered in 1908 on the island of Crete and dating to the Minoan civilization of the second millennium BCE. This character depicts a shield, among the 45 distinct signs stamped onto the disc in a spiral sequence, and it is part of the Phaistos Disc symbols block in Unicode, encoded specifically for historical and epigraphical research. Its exact meaning remains unknown, as the disc’s script has never been deciphered, though it likely served a ritual or administrative purpose in the context of the Bronze Age Aegean world.

General Properties

Code Point	U+101DB
Version Added	5.1
Name	Phaistos Disc Sign Shield
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 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDDDB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000101DB
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\udddb

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