U+101F3 "𐇳" Phaistos Disc Sign Vine Unicode Character

U+101F3 "𐇳" Phaistos Disc Sign Vine is a pictographic symbol from the undeciphered Phaistos Disc, a fired clay artifact discovered in 1908 on the island of Crete that dates to the Minoan civilization of the second millennium BCE. This specific sign, depicting a vine or branch with foliage, belongs to a sequence of 45 unique stamped symbols impressed in a spiral pattern on both sides of the disc, whose meaning and linguistic function remain unknown despite numerous scholarly attempts at interpretation. The vine image may represent agricultural or natural concepts, possibly related to vegetation, growth, or a specific word in a lost language, but its inclusion in Unicode ensures it can be digitally preserved and studied alongside other archaeological symbols.

General Properties

Code Point	U+101F3
Version Added	5.1
Name	Phaistos Disc Sign Vine
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 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDDF3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000101F3
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\uddf3

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