U+101FA "𐇺" Phaistos Disc Sign Strainer Unicode Character

U+101FA "𐇺" Phaistos Disc Sign Strainer is a symbol found on the enigmatic Phaistos Disc, a fired clay artifact discovered in the Minoan palace of Phaistos on Crete in 1908, dated to the second millennium BCE. This sign, part of a still undeciphered pictographic script, depicts what appears to be a strainer or sieve of unknown function, possibly representing a tool for food preparation or a religious implement. While its exact meaning remains a mystery, it is one of 45 unique symbols on the disc, which is widely believed to be a form of proto writing, though theories ranging from a hymn to a calendar to a hoax have been proposed. The inclusion of such a specific object in the Phaistos Disc's inventory highlights the complexity of Minoan symbolic culture.

General Properties

Code Point	U+101FA
Version Added	5.1
Name	Phaistos Disc Sign Strainer
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 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDDFA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000101FA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\uddfa

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