U+10403 "𐐃" Deseret Capital Letter Long Ah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐐃
U+10403 "𐐃" Deseret Capital Letter Long Ah is a glyph from the Deseret alphabet, a phonemic script developed in the mid-19th century by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under Brigham Young's direction to simplify English spelling and promote literacy among Mormon pioneers. This specific character represents the "long ah" vowel sound, as in the word "father," and is the uppercase form used at the beginning of sentences or proper nouns. Phonetically transcribed as /ɑː/, it corresponds to one of several vowel distinctions in the alphabet's design, which never saw widespread adoption and is now primarily of historical and linguistic interest, included in Unicode for digital preservation of the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10403 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Deseret Capital Letter Long Ah |
| Block | Deseret |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐐃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐐃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x90 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC03 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010403 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc03 |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "𐐫" U+1042B Deseret Small Letter Long Ah |
| Lowercase Code Point | "𐐫" U+1042B Deseret Small Letter Long Ah |
| Simple Case Folding | "𐐫" U+1042B Deseret Small Letter Long Ah |
| Case Folding | "𐐫" U+1042B Deseret Small Letter Long Ah |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "𐐫" U+1042B Deseret Small Letter Long Ah |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "𐐫" U+1042B Deseret Small Letter Long Ah |
| Script | Deseret |
| Script Extensions | Deseret |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |