U+10428 "𐐨" Deseret Small Letter Long I Unicode Character

U+10428 "𐐨" Deseret Small Letter Long I is a specific glyph 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 Brigham Young to simplify English spelling. This character represents the long "I" sound, as in the word "eye", and is part of the Deseret block in Unicode, which was added to support historical and linguistic texts. As a lowercase letter, it is the small form of its uppercase counterpart, U+10400, and is used in scholarly works, digital archives, and cultural preservation efforts to accurately render documents from the Mormon pioneer era.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10428
Version Added	3.1
Name	Deseret Small Letter Long I
Block	Deseret
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐐨
HTML Hex Encoding	𐐨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x90 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC28
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010428
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc28

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"𐐀" U+10400 Deseret Capital Letter Long I
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐐀" U+10400 Deseret Capital Letter Long I
Uppercase Code Point	"𐐀" U+10400 Deseret Capital Letter Long I
Titlecase Code Point	"𐐀" U+10400 Deseret Capital Letter Long I
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower