U+10448 "𐑈" Deseret Small Letter Zhee Unicode Character

U+10448 "𐑈" Deseret Small Letter Zhee is a letter from the Deseret alphabet, a phonemic writing system created in the mid-19th century by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under Brigham Young to simplify English spelling. Representing the voiced postalveolar fricative sound, similar to the "s" in "measure" or the "zh" in "Zhivago," it was designed for use in religious and educational texts but never gained widespread adoption. Today, this character is primarily of historical and linguistic interest, used in digital typography and scholarly works to preserve the unique script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10448
Version Added	3.1
Name	Deseret Small Letter Zhee
Block	Deseret
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐑈
HTML Hex Encoding	𐑈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x91 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC48
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010448
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc48

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	"𐐠" U+10420 Deseret Capital Letter Zhee
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐐠" U+10420 Deseret Capital Letter Zhee
Uppercase Code Point	"𐐠" U+10420 Deseret Capital Letter Zhee
Titlecase Code Point	"𐐠" U+10420 Deseret Capital Letter Zhee
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