U+101FB "𐇻" Phaistos Disc Sign Small Axe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐇻
U+101FB "𐇻" Phaistos Disc Sign Small Axe is a pictographic symbol from the mysterious Phaistos Disc, a fired clay artifact discovered in 1908 on the island of Crete, dating to the Minoan Bronze Age. This sign represents the image of a small axe, one of 45 distinct symbols stamped in a spiral sequence on both sides of the disc, whose meaning and language remain undeciphered to this day. As a part of the Phaistos Disc characters block in Unicode, U+101FB allows digital representation and study of this ancient writing system, contributing to ongoing scholarly debate and public fascination with one of archaeology's most intriguing unsolved puzzles.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+101FB |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Phaistos Disc Sign Small Axe |
| 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 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDDFB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000101FB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\uddfb |
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 |