U+10431 "𐐱" Deseret Small Letter Short Ah Unicode Character

U+10431 "𐐱" Deseret Small Letter Short Ah is a letter 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 Brigham Young’s direction to simplify English spelling. This specific character represents the short "ah" vowel sound, as heard in the English word "lot" or "father," and is the lowercase version of its uppercase counterpart U+10401. The Deseret alphabet was used briefly in Mormon pioneer publications before falling out of favor, and this character now belongs to the Unicode block for Deseret, which was added to preserve this historical script for digital use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10431
Version Added	3.1
Name	Deseret Small Letter Short Ah
Block	Deseret
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐐱
HTML Hex Encoding	𐐱
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x90 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC31
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010431
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc31

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	"𐐉" U+10409 Deseret Capital Letter Short Ah
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐐉" U+10409 Deseret Capital Letter Short Ah
Uppercase Code Point	"𐐉" U+10409 Deseret Capital Letter Short Ah
Titlecase Code Point	"𐐉" U+10409 Deseret Capital Letter Short 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