U+10436 "𐐶" Deseret Small Letter Wu Unicode Character

U+10436 "𐐶" Deseret Small Letter Wu is a letter from the Deseret alphabet, a phonemic script developed in the mid-19th century by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under Brigham Young to simplify English spelling. This character represents the "w" sound as in "wet" and is the lowercase form of U+10406 "𐐆" Deseret Capital Letter Wu. The Deseret alphabet saw limited use in Mormon publications during the 1850s and 1860s but eventually fell out of common practice, though it remains of historical interest to linguists and typographers today.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10436
Version Added	3.1
Name	Deseret Small Letter Wu
Block	Deseret
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐐶
HTML Hex Encoding	𐐶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x90 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC36
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010436
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc36

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	"𐐎" U+1040E Deseret Capital Letter Wu
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐐎" U+1040E Deseret Capital Letter Wu
Uppercase Code Point	"𐐎" U+1040E Deseret Capital Letter Wu
Titlecase Code Point	"𐐎" U+1040E Deseret Capital Letter Wu
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