U+101E3 "𐇣" Phaistos Disc Sign Dolium Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐇣
U+101E3 "𐇣" Phaistos Disc Sign Dolium is a symbol from the ancient Phaistos Disc, a mysterious fired clay artifact discovered in 1908 on the island of Crete. This sign depicts a dolium, which is a large storage jar or pithos commonly used in Minoan civilization for holding wine, oil, or grain. Although the precise meaning of the Phaistos Disc and its 241 pictographic stamps remains undeciphered, the dolium sign is thought to represent a container or possibly a concept of abundance or storage. The character was officially encoded in Unicode version 5.1 in 2008 under the Phaistos Disc block, preserving the artifact's enigmatic script for modern digital use and scholarly study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+101E3 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Phaistos Disc Sign Dolium |
| 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 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDDE3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000101E3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udde3 |
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 |