U+1044B "𐑋" Deseret Small Letter Em Unicode Character

U+1044B "𐑋" Deseret Small Letter Em is a character from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic writing system developed in the mid-19th century in the United States by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under the direction of Brigham Young. This script was designed to simplify English spelling by representing each sound with a distinct letter, and this particular character represents the "m" sound, making it the small (or lowercase) form of the letter Em. The Deseret alphabet saw limited use in a few publications and educational materials before falling out of favor, but it was later encoded into the Unicode standard as part of the Deseret block, ensuring its preservation for historical and linguistic study.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1044B
Version Added	3.1
Name	Deseret Small Letter Em
Block	Deseret
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐑋
HTML Hex Encoding	𐑋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x91 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC4B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001044B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc4b

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	"𐐣" U+10423 Deseret Capital Letter Em
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐐣" U+10423 Deseret Capital Letter Em
Uppercase Code Point	"𐐣" U+10423 Deseret Capital Letter Em
Titlecase Code Point	"𐐣" U+10423 Deseret Capital Letter Em
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