U+10422 "𐐢" Deseret Capital Letter El Unicode Character

U+10422 "𐐢" Deseret Capital Letter El is a letter from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic script developed in the mid-19th century by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under the direction of Brigham Young as a simplified writing system for English. It represents the /l/ sound, similar to the English letter L, and is the capital form of the lower-case character U+10452 "𐑒". This alphabet was intended to promote literacy and linguistic unity among Mormon pioneers but fell out of use by the early 20th century, and it is now primarily of historical and scholarly interest.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10422
Version Added	3.1
Name	Deseret Capital Letter El
Block	Deseret
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐐢
HTML Hex Encoding	𐐢
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x90 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC22
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010422
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc22

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	"𐑊" U+1044A Deseret Small Letter El
Lowercase Code Point	"𐑊" U+1044A Deseret Small Letter El
Simple Case Folding	"𐑊" U+1044A Deseret Small Letter El
Case Folding	"𐑊" U+1044A Deseret Small Letter El
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𐑊" U+1044A Deseret Small Letter El
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𐑊" U+1044A Deseret Small Letter El
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