U+101F1 "𐇱" Phaistos Disc Sign Bee Unicode Character

U+101F1 "𐇱" Phaistos Disc Sign Bee is a symbol derived from the enigmatic Phaistos Disc, a clay artifact discovered on the island of Crete in 1908 and dating to the Minoan civilization of the second millennium BCE. This specific pictograph, identified as a bee, is one of 45 distinct stamped symbols on the disc, arranged in a spiral pattern of 241 tokens that have never been deciphered with certainty. As part of the Phaistos Disc characters encoded in Unicode’s Linear A and Linear B supplementary block, the bee sign joins other iconographic figures like warriors, plants, and animals, offering a digital representation of an ancient script that continues to intrigue linguists and archaeologists, though its meaning and phonetic value remain a mystery.

General Properties

Code Point	U+101F1
Version Added	5.1
Name	Phaistos Disc Sign Bee
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 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDDF1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000101F1
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\uddf1

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