U+10442 "𐑂" Deseret Small Letter Vee Unicode Character

U+10442 "𐑂" Deseret Small Letter Vee is a letter from the Deseret alphabet, an alternative phonetic writing system created in the mid-19th century for the English language by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under Brigham Young. This specific character represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound, similar to the English letter V, and is part of the Deseret block in Unicode, which includes both uppercase and lowercase forms. The alphabet was intended to simplify English spelling and accelerate literacy among Mormon pioneers, though it never achieved widespread adoption and is now primarily of historical and linguistic interest.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10442
Version Added	3.1
Name	Deseret Small Letter Vee
Block	Deseret
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐑂
HTML Hex Encoding	𐑂
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x91 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC42
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010442
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc42

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	"𐐚" U+1041A Deseret Capital Letter Vee
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐐚" U+1041A Deseret Capital Letter Vee
Uppercase Code Point	"𐐚" U+1041A Deseret Capital Letter Vee
Titlecase Code Point	"𐐚" U+1041A Deseret Capital Letter Vee
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