U+101F9 "𐇹" Phaistos Disc Sign Grater Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+101F9 "𐇹" Phaistos Disc Sign Grater is one of the 45 unique pictographic symbols found on the enigmatic Phaistos Disc, a fired clay artifact discovered in 1908 in the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete and dated to the second millennium BCE. This particular sign depicts what scholars interpret as a grater or a rubbing tool, and it remains undeciphered as part of a script that has never been reliably translated, possibly representing a form of hieroglyphic or syllabic writing. The Phaistos Disc is notable for being a rare instance of movable type printing in the ancient world, as its symbols were impressed into the clay using individual stamps. U+101F9 was added to the Unicode Standard in version 5.1, released in 2008, under the block "Phaistos Disc" to allow for digital representation and study of this mysterious inscription.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𐇹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𐇹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x90 0x87 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD800 0xDDF9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000101F9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud800\uddf9 |
Unicode Properties