U+101ED "𐇭" Phaistos Disc Sign Ram Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐇭
U+101ED "𐇭" Phaistos Disc Sign Ram is a pictographic symbol originating from the enigmatic Phaistos Disc, a fired clay artifact discovered in the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete and dated to the second millennium BCE. This sign depicts a ram, an animal commonly associated with ancient religious and economic life, and is one of 45 distinct pictographs stamped onto the disc using movable type, making the artifact a unique and early example of printing technology. Its precise meaning remains undeciphered, though scholars speculate it may represent a syllable, a word, or a symbolic concept within the Minoan script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+101ED |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Phaistos Disc Sign Ram |
| 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 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDDED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000101ED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udded |
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 |