U+101F0 "𐇰" Phaistos Disc Sign Tunny Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+101F0 "𐇰" Phaistos Disc Sign Tunny is a symbol originally imprinted on the enigmatic Minoan artifact known as the Phaistos Disc, which was discovered in Crete in 1908 and dates to the second millennium BCE. This particular sign, known as the "tunny" after the Greek word for tuna, depicts a fish and is one of 45 distinct pictographic symbols stamped into the disc's clay surface using movable type. While the exact meaning of the Phaistos Disc remains undeciphered, scholars generally believe the signs represent a form of writing, possibly conveying a religious or administrative text, with the tunny likely symbolizing a fish or a related concept. As a result, this character is of significant interest to linguists, historians, and cryptographers studying ancient scripts and the development of written language in the Aegean world.

General Properties

Code Point U+101F0
Version Added 5.1
Name Phaistos Disc Sign Tunny
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 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDDF0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000101F0
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\uddf0

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