U+1040C "𐐌" Deseret Capital Letter Ay Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1040C "𐐌" Deseret Capital Letter Ay 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 promote literacy among Mormon settlers. This specific character represents the long "I" sound, as in the English word "eye" or "ice," and it belongs to the Deseret block of Unicode, which was added to the standard in 2001 to preserve historical use of the alphabet in print and digital contexts. Though the Deseret script never achieved widespread adoption and fell into disuse by the early 20th century, the encoding of "𐐌" ensures its continued accessibility for scholarly research, linguistic study, and cultural preservation.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𐐌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𐐌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x90 0x90 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD801 0xDC0C |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0001040C |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud801\udc0c |
Unicode Properties