U+10430 "𐐰" Deseret Small Letter Short A Unicode Character

U+10430 "𐐰" Deseret Small Letter Short A is a character from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic script developed in the mid-19th century in the United States under the direction of Brigham Young, the leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, intended to simplify English spelling and pronunciation. This specific character represents the short A sound, as in the word "cat," and is the lowercase or small letter version within the Deseret alphabet block. As part of the Unicode Standard since version 3.1 in 2001, it is categorized under the Deseret script, which is now largely of historical and scholarly interest, used primarily in academic and digital contexts to preserve and display early Mormon textual heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10430
Version Added	3.1
Name	Deseret Small Letter Short A
Block	Deseret
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐐰
HTML Hex Encoding	𐐰
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x90 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC30
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010430
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc30

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	"𐐈" U+10408 Deseret Capital Letter Short A
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐐈" U+10408 Deseret Capital Letter Short A
Uppercase Code Point	"𐐈" U+10408 Deseret Capital Letter Short A
Titlecase Code Point	"𐐈" U+10408 Deseret Capital Letter Short A
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