U+101F7 "𐇷" Phaistos Disc Sign Ox Back Unicode Character

U+101F7 "𐇷" Phaistos Disc Sign Ox Back is a symbol from the undeciphered Phaistos Disc, a Minoan clay artifact discovered in 1908 on the island of Crete and dating to the second millennium BCE. This specific sign depicts the back of an ox or a bovine animal, and it is part of a set of 45 distinct pictographic symbols stamped into the disc using movable type, which suggests an early form of printing. While the exact meaning of "Ox Back" remains unknown, it is thought to represent a common postural motif in the iconography of the ancient Aegean world, possibly conveying a concept related to livestock, labor, or a mythological attribute. The character was added to the Unicode Standard in 2021 under Plane 1 as part of the Phaistos Disc encoded block, allowing for its digital representation and study across modern computing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+101F7
Version Added	5.1
Name	Phaistos Disc Sign Ox Back
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 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDDF7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000101F7
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\uddf7

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