U+10427 "𐐧" Deseret Capital Letter Ew Unicode Character

U+10427 "𐐧" Deseret Capital Letter Ew is a symbol from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic writing system created 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. This specific character represents the vowel sound found in words like "few" or "beauty," corresponding to the /juː/ phoneme. The Deseret alphabet was used briefly in the Utah territory for religious and educational texts but never gained widespread adoption, making characters like U+10427 a rare piece of typographic history, preserved today in the Unicode Standard for digital use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10427
Version Added	4.0
Name	Deseret Capital Letter Ew
Block	Deseret
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐐧
HTML Hex Encoding	𐐧
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x90 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC27
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010427
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc27

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	"𐑏" U+1044F Deseret Small Letter Ew
Lowercase Code Point	"𐑏" U+1044F Deseret Small Letter Ew
Simple Case Folding	"𐑏" U+1044F Deseret Small Letter Ew
Case Folding	"𐑏" U+1044F Deseret Small Letter Ew
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𐑏" U+1044F Deseret Small Letter Ew
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𐑏" U+1044F Deseret Small Letter Ew
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