U+1040B "𐐋" Deseret Capital Letter Short Oo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐐋
U+1040B "𐐋" Deseret Capital Letter Short Oo is a letter from 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 vowel sound /ʊ/ as heard in the word "book" and is used only in the uppercase form, with its lowercase counterpart being U+10433 "𐐳". The Deseret alphabet was primarily used in a few printed texts in Utah during the 1850s and 1860s but never gained widespread adoption, and this character now serves as a historical and linguistic artifact in the Unicode standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1040B |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Deseret Capital Letter Short Oo |
| Block | Deseret |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐐋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐐋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x90 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC0B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001040B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc0b |
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 | "𐐳" U+10433 Deseret Small Letter Short Oo |
| Lowercase Code Point | "𐐳" U+10433 Deseret Small Letter Short Oo |
| Simple Case Folding | "𐐳" U+10433 Deseret Small Letter Short Oo |
| Case Folding | "𐐳" U+10433 Deseret Small Letter Short Oo |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "𐐳" U+10433 Deseret Small Letter Short Oo |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "𐐳" U+10433 Deseret Small Letter Short Oo |
| 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 |