U+101E6 "𐇦" Phaistos Disc Sign Column Unicode Character

U+101E6 "𐇦" Phaistos Disc Sign Column is one of the 45 distinct pictographic symbols found on the enigmatic Phaistos Disc, a fired clay disc discovered in 1908 in the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete. This specific sign, resembling a vertical series of stacked rectangular blocks or a segmented column, is believed to represent a structural element, possibly a pillar or a column, within the disc's undeciphered syllabic writing system. The disc, dating to the Minoan Bronze Age around 1700 BCE, remains one of archaeology's greatest unsolved puzzles, and this column sign is part of a unique set of symbols that have never been conclusively translated or linked to any known language, fueling ongoing scholarly debate and fascination.

General Properties

Code Point	U+101E6
Version Added	5.1
Name	Phaistos Disc Sign Column
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 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDDE6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000101E6
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\udde6

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