U+1043F "𐐿" Deseret Small Letter Kay Unicode Character

U+1043F "𐐿" Deseret Small Letter Kay is a letter from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic writing system developed in the mid-19th century by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to simplify English spelling and literacy. This character represents the "k" sound, as in the English word "kite," and it is the lowercase form of the capital letter U+10413 "𐐓" Deseret Capital Letter Kay. The Deseret script, which also includes vowel and consonant characters, was used in a few publications before falling into disuse, but it has since been encoded in Unicode to preserve its historical and linguistic significance.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1043F
Version Added	3.1
Name	Deseret Small Letter Kay
Block	Deseret
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐐿
HTML Hex Encoding	𐐿
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x90 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC3F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001043F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc3f

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	"𐐗" U+10417 Deseret Capital Letter Kay
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐐗" U+10417 Deseret Capital Letter Kay
Uppercase Code Point	"𐐗" U+10417 Deseret Capital Letter Kay
Titlecase Code Point	"𐐗" U+10417 Deseret Capital Letter Kay
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