U+10425 "𐐥" Deseret Capital Letter Eng Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐐥
U+10425 "𐐥" Deseret Capital Letter Eng is a specific character from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic script invented in the mid-19th century by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, primarily Brigham Young, to simplify English spelling and pronunciation. This capital letter represents the "eng" sound, similar to the "ng" in the word "sing," and was part of a writing system intended to unify the diverse linguistic backgrounds of Mormon pioneers settling in the Utah Territory. Though the alphabet saw limited use and fell out of practice by the late 1800s, it was added to the Unicode standard in version 3.1 to preserve this unique historical script for digital and academic use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10425 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Deseret Capital Letter Eng |
| Block | Deseret |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐐥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐐥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x90 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC25 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010425 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc25 |
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 | "𐑍" U+1044D Deseret Small Letter Eng |
| Lowercase Code Point | "𐑍" U+1044D Deseret Small Letter Eng |
| Simple Case Folding | "𐑍" U+1044D Deseret Small Letter Eng |
| Case Folding | "𐑍" U+1044D Deseret Small Letter Eng |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "𐑍" U+1044D Deseret Small Letter Eng |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "𐑍" U+1044D Deseret Small Letter Eng |
| 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 |