U+10409 "𐐉" Deseret Capital Letter Short Ah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐐉
U+10409 "𐐉" Deseret Capital Letter Short Ah is part of the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic writing system developed 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. This specific character represents the short "a" vowel sound, as heard in the English word "father" or "pot," and was intended for use in the capital form at the beginning of sentences or proper nouns. The Deseret alphabet never achieved widespread adoption, but its characters were encoded in Unicode starting in version 3.1 in 2001, preserving this historical script for digital use and linguistic study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10409 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Deseret Capital Letter Short Ah |
| Block | Deseret |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐐉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐐉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x90 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010409 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc09 |
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 | "𐐱" U+10431 Deseret Small Letter Short Ah |
| Lowercase Code Point | "𐐱" U+10431 Deseret Small Letter Short Ah |
| Simple Case Folding | "𐐱" U+10431 Deseret Small Letter Short Ah |
| Case Folding | "𐐱" U+10431 Deseret Small Letter Short Ah |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "𐐱" U+10431 Deseret Small Letter Short Ah |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "𐐱" U+10431 Deseret Small Letter Short 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 |