U+101E0 "𐇠" Phaistos Disc Sign Lid Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐇠
U+101E0 "𐇠" Phaistos Disc Sign Lid is a unique symbol derived from the enigmatic Phaistos Disc, a fired clay artifact discovered on the island of Crete in 1908 and dating to the Minoan civilization of the 2nd millennium BCE. This particular sign depicts a schematic vessel lid, and it is one of 45 distinct pictographic symbols stamped into the disc’s spiral of text, a script that remains undeciphered and whose purpose is still debated by scholars. Encoded in the Unicode standard within the Phaistos Disc block, it serves as a digital representation of this ancient sign, allowing for its use in modern text and research related to Aegean archaeology, cryptography, and historical linguistics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+101E0 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Phaistos Disc Sign Lid |
| 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 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDDE0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000101E0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udde0 |
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 |