U+1042E "𐐮" Deseret Small Letter Short I Unicode Character

U+1042E "𐐮" Deseret Small Letter Short I is a typographic symbol 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 the leadership of Brigham Young. This specific character represents the short vowel sound /ɪ/, as in the English word "bit," and is classified as a lowercase letter within the Deseret script block. Although the alphabet was created to simplify English spelling, it was never widely adopted and is now primarily of historical and scholarly interest. In modern digital contexts, this character is encoded in Unicode since version 3.1 to preserve the orthography for linguistic research and cultural heritage.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐐮
HTML Hex Encoding	𐐮
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x90 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC2E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001042E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc2e

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	"𐐆" U+10406 Deseret Capital Letter Short I
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐐆" U+10406 Deseret Capital Letter Short I
Uppercase Code Point	"𐐆" U+10406 Deseret Capital Letter Short I
Titlecase Code Point	"𐐆" U+10406 Deseret Capital Letter Short 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