U+101DC "𐇜" Phaistos Disc Sign Club Unicode Character

U+101DC "𐇜" Phaistos Disc Sign Club is a symbol derived from the enigmatic Phaistos Disc, a fired clay artifact discovered in 1908 on the island of Crete and dating to the Minoan civilization of the second millennium BCE. This particular sign, depicting a club or cudgel shape, is one of 45 distinct pictographic symbols stamped into the disc using movable type, though the disc's purpose, language, and meaning remain undeciphered and the subject of ongoing scholarly debate. As part of the Phaistos Disc characters block in Unicode, the sign serves to digitally represent this mysterious Minoan script for academic and historical preservation, allowing researchers and enthusiasts to type and study the disc’s unique sequence of symbols in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+101DC
Version Added	5.1
Name	Phaistos Disc Sign Club
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 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDDDC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000101DC
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\udddc

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