U+10446 "𐑆" Deseret Small Letter Zee Unicode Character

U+10446 "𐑆" Deseret Small Letter Zee is a letter from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic script created in the mid-19th century in the United States under the direction of Mormon leader Brigham Young to simplify English spelling and literacy. This character specifically represents the voiced "zee" or "z" sound, akin to the modern English letter Z. The Deseret alphabet was used in a handful of published books and newspapers during the 1850s and 1860s but never gained widespread adoption, and it fell out of use by the early 20th century. Today, "𐑆" and its uppercase counterpart are encoded in Unicode under the Deseret block (U+10400 to U+1044F) to preserve this historical writing system for digital and academic purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10446
Version Added	3.1
Name	Deseret Small Letter Zee
Block	Deseret
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐑆
HTML Hex Encoding	𐑆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x91 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC46
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010446
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc46

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	"𐐞" U+1041E Deseret Capital Letter Zee
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐐞" U+1041E Deseret Capital Letter Zee
Uppercase Code Point	"𐐞" U+1041E Deseret Capital Letter Zee
Titlecase Code Point	"𐐞" U+1041E Deseret Capital Letter Zee
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