U+1042B "𐐫" Deseret Small Letter Long Ah Unicode Character

U+1042B "𐐫" Deseret Small Letter Long Ah is a letter from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic writing system developed in the mid-19th century for the English language by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under Brigham Young. This specific character represents the long "ah" sound, similar to the vowel in the English word "father." It belongs to the Deseret script block in Unicode, which was encoded in version 3.1 of the standard to support historical and linguistic research. While the alphabet saw limited use and eventually fell out of practice, the inclusion of this character in digital encoding helps preserve an important piece of American religious and linguistic history.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1042B
Version Added	3.1
Name	Deseret Small Letter Long Ah
Block	Deseret
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐐫
HTML Hex Encoding	𐐫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x90 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC2B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001042B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc2b

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	"𐐃" U+10403 Deseret Capital Letter Long Ah
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐐃" U+10403 Deseret Capital Letter Long Ah
Uppercase Code Point	"𐐃" U+10403 Deseret Capital Letter Long Ah
Titlecase Code Point	"𐐃" U+10403 Deseret Capital Letter Long Ah
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