U+1041E "𐐞" Deseret Capital Letter Zee Unicode Character

U+1041E "𐐞" Deseret Capital Letter Zee is a letter from 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's direction to simplify English spelling. Representing the "z" sound as in "zebra," this capital letter is part of a larger set of characters once used in Mormon pioneer publications but now largely historical. Encoded in Unicode's Deseret block, it serves as a digital representation of a unique linguistic artifact reflecting 19th-century efforts to reform written English.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1041E
Version Added	3.1
Name	Deseret Capital Letter Zee
Block	Deseret
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐐞
HTML Hex Encoding	𐐞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x90 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC1E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001041E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc1e

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	"𐑆" U+10446 Deseret Small Letter Zee
Lowercase Code Point	"𐑆" U+10446 Deseret Small Letter Zee
Simple Case Folding	"𐑆" U+10446 Deseret Small Letter Zee
Case Folding	"𐑆" U+10446 Deseret Small Letter Zee
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𐑆" U+10446 Deseret Small Letter Zee
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𐑆" U+10446 Deseret Small Letter Zee
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