U+101E5 "𐇥" Phaistos Disc Sign Sling Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐇥

U+101E5 "𐇥" Phaistos Disc Sign Sling is one of the 45 unique pictographic symbols stamped onto the mysterious Phaistos Disc, a fired clay artifact discovered in the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete in 1908. This particular sign depicts a sling, a weapon used for hurling stones, and its inclusion among the disc's symbols suggests it may represent either a literal object, a phonetic syllable, or a conceptual idea within the undeciphered script. Because the disc's meaning and language remain unknown, the sign's precise interpretation is speculative, but it is commonly cataloged as number 20 in the standard numbering of Phaistos Disc symbols. As a part of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane in Unicode, this character preserves the visual form of the ancient sign for digital use, aiding research and public interest in the enigmatic artifact.

General Properties

Code Point U+101E5
Version Added 5.1
Name Phaistos Disc Sign Sling
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 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDDE5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000101E5
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\udde5

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