What 𐇮 means
The inscription is still undeciphered.
“Eagle” is a catalogue label for one of the Phaistos Disc’s signs, not a translated ancient word; the sign appears stamped on a clay disc from Minoan Crete.
In 2026, no generally accepted reading establishes what 𐇮 meant. The disc’s purpose remains debated. Cretan hieroglyphic, Linear A, and Linear B are other writing systems associated with Crete; marks on Bronze Age pottery offer another comparison. None proves direct descent or gives this sign a reading.
Which way does the Phaistos Disc read?
From the outer rim toward the centre.
The disc’s spiral and overlapping impressions point inward. In the Unicode Standard, Version 12.0, the encoded signs default to left-to-right for ordinary digital text; that layout does not say how Minoans read the artifact.
Groups on the disc contain two to seven signs. A diagonal stroke can sit beneath a group’s final sign, so its position belongs to the historical writing layout.
Specialist and opaque outside discussion of the Phaistos Disc.
“Eagle” is a catalogue label, not a proven ancient reading.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsLikely a reference to this named Phaistos Disc sign.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐇮 show as a box?
Font support. A font without a glyph for this Phaistos Disc character may show a box or fallback.
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How to type or find 𐇮
- Also called
- Phaistos eagle · eagle sign · Phaistos glyph
- Search it as
- phaistos · phaistos disc · phaistos disk · phaistos symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐇮\101EE𐇮; a Unicode-aware parser turns it into 𐇮.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.