U+1043C "𐐼" Deseret Small Letter Dee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐐼
U+1043C "𐐼" Deseret Small Letter Dee is a letter from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic script created in the mid-19th century by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to simplify English spelling. This specific character represents the sound of the English letter "D" as in "dog" and is the lowercase form of its corresponding uppercase version, U+10414 "𐐔". The Deseret alphabet fell out of common use within a few decades, but this character is preserved in the Unicode standard for historical and linguistic text processing. It belongs to the Deseret block, which was added to Unicode in version 3.1 in 2001.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1043C |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Deseret Small Letter Dee |
| Block | Deseret |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐐼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐐼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x90 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC3C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001043C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc3c |
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 | "𐐔" U+10414 Deseret Capital Letter Dee |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "𐐔" U+10414 Deseret Capital Letter Dee |
| Uppercase Code Point | "𐐔" U+10414 Deseret Capital Letter Dee |
| Titlecase Code Point | "𐐔" U+10414 Deseret Capital Letter Dee |
| 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 |