U+10434 "𐐴" Deseret Small Letter Ay Unicode Character

U+10434 "𐐴" Deseret Small Letter Ay is a historical orthographic symbol from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic script invented in the mid-19th century by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under Brigham Young to simplify English spelling and promote literacy among Mormon settlers. This lowercase letter represents the long A sound, as in the word "say," and was part of a failed attempt to create a distinct Mormon cultural identity. The Deseret script, though never widely adopted, is preserved in Unicode for historical and scholarly purposes, and this character is encoded in the Deseret block alongside its uppercase counterpart, U+10404, for use in digital texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10434
Version Added	3.1
Name	Deseret Small Letter Ay
Block	Deseret
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐐴
HTML Hex Encoding	𐐴
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x90 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC34
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010434
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc34

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	"𐐌" U+1040C Deseret Capital Letter Ay
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐐌" U+1040C Deseret Capital Letter Ay
Uppercase Code Point	"𐐌" U+1040C Deseret Capital Letter Ay
Titlecase Code Point	"𐐌" U+1040C Deseret Capital Letter Ay
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