U+10416 "𐐖" Deseret Capital Letter Jee Unicode Character

U+10416 "𐐖" Deseret Capital Letter Jee is part of the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic script created in the mid‑19th century by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‑day Saints under Brigham Young to simplify English spelling. This uppercase letter represents the sound of the English "J" as in "judge" and was used in a limited number of publications, including primers and the Deseret News, before the alphabet’s use declined. Despite its historical obscurity, the character is preserved in the Unicode Standard to support digital representation and study of this unique writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10416
Version Added	3.1
Name	Deseret Capital Letter Jee
Block	Deseret
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐐖
HTML Hex Encoding	𐐖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x90 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC16
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010416
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc16

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	"𐐾" U+1043E Deseret Small Letter Jee
Lowercase Code Point	"𐐾" U+1043E Deseret Small Letter Jee
Simple Case Folding	"𐐾" U+1043E Deseret Small Letter Jee
Case Folding	"𐐾" U+1043E Deseret Small Letter Jee
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𐐾" U+1043E Deseret Small Letter Jee
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𐐾" U+1043E Deseret Small Letter Jee
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