U+101F5 "𐇵" Phaistos Disc Sign Rosette Unicode Character

U+101F5 "𐇵" Phaistos Disc Sign Rosette is a symbol originating from the enigmatic Phaistos Disc, a fired clay artifact discovered in 1908 on the island of Crete and dating to the Minoan Bronze Age. This particular sign depicts a rosette, a flower-like motif often interpreted as a decorative or symbolic element within the disc's mysterious stamped sequence of 45 unique pictographic signs. Its exact meaning remains unknown, though it may represent a specific object, a sound, or an abstract concept in the undeciphered Minoan script. The inclusion of the Rosette sign in Unicode, as part of the Phaistos Disc characters block, ensures its digital preservation and facilitates scholarly study and public access to this ancient artifact.

General Properties

Code Point	U+101F5
Version Added	5.1
Name	Phaistos Disc Sign Rosette
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 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDDF5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000101F5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\uddf5

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