U+101FC "𐇼" Phaistos Disc Sign Wavy Band Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐇼
U+101FC "𐇼" Phaistos Disc Sign Wavy Band is one of the 45 distinct symbols found on the mysterious Phaistos Disc, a fired clay artifact discovered in 1908 in the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete. This particular sign depicts a horizontal wavy line or band, and it appears multiple times on the disc, which is stamped with a spiral arrangement of these symbols using movable type, a technology far ahead of its time. While the Phaistos Disc has never been deciphered, and its purpose and meaning remain unknown, the inclusion of this sign in the Unicode standard preserves it as a digital character, allowing for scholarly discussion and digital reproduction of the artifact’s enigmatic script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+101FC |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Phaistos Disc Sign Wavy Band |
| 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 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDDFC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000101FC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\uddfc |
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 |