U+10418 "𐐘" Deseret Capital Letter Gay Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐐘
U+10418 "𐐘" Deseret Capital Letter Gay is a letter from the Deseret alphabet, a phonemic script developed in the mid-19th century by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under Brigham Young's direction to simplify English spelling. This specific character represents the hard "g" sound, as in the word "go," and belongs to the Deseret block of Unicode, which was added to version 3.1 of the standard in 2001 to support historical and scholarly text. The Deseret alphabet saw limited use in a few publications in Utah during the 1860s and 1870s before falling out of favor, and today this character is primarily employed by linguists, historians, and enthusiasts studying the unique writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10418 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Deseret Capital Letter Gay |
| Block | Deseret |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐐘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐐘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x90 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC18 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010418 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc18 |
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 | "𐑀" U+10440 Deseret Small Letter Gay |
| Lowercase Code Point | "𐑀" U+10440 Deseret Small Letter Gay |
| Simple Case Folding | "𐑀" U+10440 Deseret Small Letter Gay |
| Case Folding | "𐑀" U+10440 Deseret Small Letter Gay |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "𐑀" U+10440 Deseret Small Letter Gay |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "𐑀" U+10440 Deseret Small Letter Gay |
| 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 |