U+10406 "𐐆" Deseret Capital Letter Short I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐐆
U+10406 "𐐆" Deseret Capital Letter Short I is a typographic symbol from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic script created in the mid-19th century by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under the direction of Brigham Young to simplify English spelling and promote literacy among Mormon pioneers. This specific character represents the short "i" sound, as in the word "it," and is the uppercase form used at the beginning of sentences or for proper nouns in the Deseret writing system. Although the alphabet was never widely adopted and fell out of use after a few decades, it was encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Deseret block, preserving its historical and linguistic significance for digital text and scholarly study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10406 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Deseret Capital Letter Short I |
| Block | Deseret |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐐆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐐆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x90 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC06 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010406 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc06 |
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 | "𐐮" U+1042E Deseret Small Letter Short I |
| Lowercase Code Point | "𐐮" U+1042E Deseret Small Letter Short I |
| Simple Case Folding | "𐐮" U+1042E Deseret Small Letter Short I |
| Case Folding | "𐐮" U+1042E Deseret Small Letter Short I |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "𐐮" U+1042E Deseret Small Letter Short I |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "𐐮" U+1042E Deseret Small Letter Short I |
| 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 |