U+101DF "𐇟" Phaistos Disc Sign Saw Unicode Character

U+101DF "𐇟" Phaistos Disc Sign Saw is a graphical symbol from the mysterious Phaistos Disc, a fired clay artifact discovered in 1908 on the island of Crete and dated to the Minoan Bronze Age, approximately 1700–1600 BCE. This character represents one of 45 distinct pictographic signs stamped onto the disc's spiral of text using movable type, a technique centuries ahead of its time. The sign itself depicts what appears to be a saw or similar cutting tool, but its exact meaning and phonetic value remain unknown, as the disc's script has never been deciphered. It is part of the Phaistos Disc symbol set encoded in Unicode's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, allowing digital representation of this enigmatic ancient artifact for research and preservation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+101DF
Version Added	5.1
Name	Phaistos Disc Sign Saw
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 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDDDF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000101DF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\udddf

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