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 |