U+10417 "𐐗" Deseret Capital Letter Kay Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐐗
U+10417 "𐐗" Deseret Capital Letter Kay is a letter from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic writing system created in the mid-19th century under the direction of Brigham Young, the leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to simplify English spelling and promote literacy. This specific character represents the unvoiced velar stop sound, similar to the English letter "K," and is used exclusively for writing in the Deseret script, which was briefly taught in Mormon communities before falling out of common use. Today, the character is preserved in the Unicode standard for historical and linguistic purposes, allowing digital representation of rare texts written in this unique alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10417 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Deseret Capital Letter Kay |
| Block | Deseret |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐐗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐐗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x90 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010417 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc17 |
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 | "𐐿" U+1043F Deseret Small Letter Kay |
| Lowercase Code Point | "𐐿" U+1043F Deseret Small Letter Kay |
| Simple Case Folding | "𐐿" U+1043F Deseret Small Letter Kay |
| Case Folding | "𐐿" U+1043F Deseret Small Letter Kay |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "𐐿" U+1043F Deseret Small Letter Kay |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "𐐿" U+1043F Deseret Small Letter Kay |
| 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 |