U+1044C "𐑌" Deseret Small Letter En Unicode Character

U+1044C "𐑌" Deseret Small Letter En is a letter in the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic script developed in the mid-19th century by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under the direction of Brigham Young to simplify English spelling. It represents the sound of the English letter "N" and is the lowercase form of its uppercase counterpart, U+1041C 𐐤. The Deseret alphabet was used briefly in Utah during the 1850s and 1860s for religious and educational texts but never gained widespread adoption. Today, it is of primarily historical and scholarly interest, with this character appearing in the Unicode Standard to support digital preservation of the script.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐑌
HTML Hex Encoding	𐑌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x91 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC4C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001044C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc4c

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	"𐐤" U+10424 Deseret Capital Letter En
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐐤" U+10424 Deseret Capital Letter En
Uppercase Code Point	"𐐤" U+10424 Deseret Capital Letter En
Titlecase Code Point	"𐐤" U+10424 Deseret Capital Letter En
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