U+1041A "𐐚" Deseret Capital Letter Vee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐐚
U+1041A "𐐚" Deseret Capital Letter Vee is a character from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic script invented 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 and promote literacy among Mormon pioneers. This capital letter represents the sound of the English "v" as in "vine" or "voice," and it corresponds to its lowercase form, U+10442 "𐑂." Despite efforts to promote it, the Deseret alphabet never achieved widespread use and remains a historical curiosity, though it is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the "Deseret" block, which includes both uppercase and lowercase letters for the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1041A |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Deseret Capital Letter Vee |
| Block | Deseret |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐐚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐐚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x90 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001041A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc1a |
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 | "𐑂" U+10442 Deseret Small Letter Vee |
| Lowercase Code Point | "𐑂" U+10442 Deseret Small Letter Vee |
| Simple Case Folding | "𐑂" U+10442 Deseret Small Letter Vee |
| Case Folding | "𐑂" U+10442 Deseret Small Letter Vee |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "𐑂" U+10442 Deseret Small Letter Vee |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "𐑂" U+10442 Deseret Small Letter Vee |
| 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 |