U+1041D "𐐝" Deseret Capital Letter Es Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐐝
U+1041D "𐐝" Deseret Capital Letter Es is a letter from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic writing system developed in the mid-19th century by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under leader Brigham Young, intended to simplify English spelling for Mormon pioneers. This specific character represents the "S" sound, functioning as the uppercase form of lowercase character U+1043D "𐐽". The Deseret alphabet was used in a limited number of publications and educational materials in Utah between the 1850s and 1870s, but it never gained widespread adoption and eventually fell out of use. Today, the character is part of the Unicode Standard's Deseret block, preserving its historical and linguistic significance for digital text encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1041D |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Deseret Capital Letter Es |
| Block | Deseret |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐐝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐐝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x90 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC1D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001041D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc1d |
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 | "𐑅" U+10445 Deseret Small Letter Es |
| Lowercase Code Point | "𐑅" U+10445 Deseret Small Letter Es |
| Simple Case Folding | "𐑅" U+10445 Deseret Small Letter Es |
| Case Folding | "𐑅" U+10445 Deseret Small Letter Es |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "𐑅" U+10445 Deseret Small Letter Es |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "𐑅" U+10445 Deseret Small Letter Es |
| 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 |