U+101F4 "𐇴" Phaistos Disc Sign Papyrus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐇴
U+101F4 "𐇴" Phaistos Disc Sign Papyrus is one of the symbols from a set of 45 distinct pictographic signs stamped onto the famous Phaistos Disc, an enigmatic clay artifact discovered in 1908 on the island of Crete and dating to the Minoan civilization of the second millennium BCE. This particular sign depicts what appears to be a papyrus plant or its flowering stalk, likely representing a valued resource or a symbolic motif within the disc's undeciphered script. Though the disc remains a mystery, its signs are preserved through modern digital encoding, allowing for scholarly study and typographic representation in Unicode.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+101F4 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Phaistos Disc Sign Papyrus |
| 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 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDDF4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000101F4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\uddf4 |
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 |