U+10408 "𐐈" Deseret Capital Letter Short A Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐐈

U+10408 "𐐈" Deseret Capital Letter Short A is a letter from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic script developed in the mid-19th century by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under Brigham Young to simplify English spelling and improve literacy. This particular character represents the short 'a' vowel sound, as in the word "cat," and it is encoded in the Unicode standard's Deseret block, which includes both uppercase and lowercase forms. Although the alphabet was used for a limited time in Mormon communities and in early Utah Territory publications, it largely fell out of use by the 1870s, and the character is now primarily of historical and scholarly interest.

General Properties

Code Point U+10408
Version Added 3.1
Name Deseret Capital Letter Short A
Block Deseret
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐐈
HTML Hex Encoding 𐐈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x90 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD801 0xDC08
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010408
C/C++/Java Escape \ud801\udc08

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 "𐐰" U+10430 Deseret Small Letter Short A
Lowercase Code Point "𐐰" U+10430 Deseret Small Letter Short A
Simple Case Folding "𐐰" U+10430 Deseret Small Letter Short A
Case Folding "𐐰" U+10430 Deseret Small Letter Short A
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "𐐰" U+10430 Deseret Small Letter Short A
NFKC Simple Casefold "𐐰" U+10430 Deseret Small Letter Short A
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