U+101E2 "𐇢" Phaistos Disc Sign Carpentry Plane Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐇢
U+101E2 "𐇢" Phaistos Disc Sign Carpentry Plane is a symbol from the undeciphered Phaistos Disc, a mysterious clay artifact discovered on the island of Crete in 1908 and dating to the Minoan Bronze Age. This particular sign, one of 45 distinct symbols stamped onto the disc using movable type, is conventionally interpreted as a carpenter's plane or adze, suggesting its use in representing a tool related to woodworking or building. The specific meaning of the sign within the disc's cryptic inscription remains unknown, but it is catalogued in the Unicode Standard under the Phaistos Disc signs block, preserving this ancient symbol for digital representation and scholarly study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+101E2 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Phaistos Disc Sign Carpentry Plane |
| 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 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDDE2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000101E2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udde2 |
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 |