U+101EC "𐇬" Phaistos Disc Sign Cat Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+101EC "𐇬" Phaistos Disc Sign Cat is a symbol originating from the enigmatic Phaistos Disc, a fired clay disk discovered in 1908 on the Greek island of Crete and dated to the Minoan civilization of the second millennium BCE. This particular sign depicts a cat and is one of 45 distinct pictographic symbols stamped into the disc using movable type, a technique remarkably advanced for its time. The exact meaning and language of the Phaistos Disc remain undeciphered, so the sign's function is unknown, though it is often hypothesized to represent a word, syllable, or concept related to the animal. Encoded in Unicode as part of the Phaistos Disc supplement block, "𐇬" allows digital preservation and scholarly study of this mysterious artifact, which continues to captivate linguists, archaeologists, and historians as one of the great unsolved puzzles of ancient writing.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𐇬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𐇬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x90 0x87 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD800 0xDDEC |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000101EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud800\uddec |
Unicode Properties