U+10445 "𐑅" Deseret Small Letter Es Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐑅
U+10445 "𐑅" Deseret Small Letter Es is a letter from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic writing system created in the mid-19th century in the United States by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under Brigham Young to simplify English spelling and promote literacy. This specific character represents the "s" sound, equivalent to the English letter S, and is classified within the Deseret block of Unicode, which contains both uppercase and lowercase versions of the alphabet. Although the Deseret script was used briefly in early Mormon publications, it never achieved widespread adoption, and today its characters are primarily of historical and linguistic interest.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10445 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Deseret Small Letter Es |
| Block | Deseret |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐑅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐑅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x91 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC45 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010445 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc45 |
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 | "𐐝" U+1041D Deseret Capital Letter Es |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "𐐝" U+1041D Deseret Capital Letter Es |
| Uppercase Code Point | "𐐝" U+1041D Deseret Capital Letter Es |
| Titlecase Code Point | "𐐝" U+1041D Deseret Capital Letter Es |
| 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 |