U+1044E "𐑎" Deseret Small Letter Oi Unicode Character

U+1044E "𐑎" Deseret Small Letter Oi is a glyph from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic writing system developed in the mid-19th century by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under Brigham Young to simplify English spelling. This specific character represents the vowel sound commonly heard in words like "boy" or "voice," corresponding to the diphthong /ɔɪ/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It is part of the Deseret block in Unicode, which was added to support historical and scholarly texts, and its lowercase form mirrors the uppercase version U+10426 while being distinct from other alphabetic characters in the script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1044E
Version Added	4.0
Name	Deseret Small Letter Oi
Block	Deseret
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐑎
HTML Hex Encoding	𐑎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x91 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC4E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001044E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc4e

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	"𐐦" U+10426 Deseret Capital Letter Oi
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐐦" U+10426 Deseret Capital Letter Oi
Uppercase Code Point	"𐐦" U+10426 Deseret Capital Letter Oi
Titlecase Code Point	"𐐦" U+10426 Deseret Capital Letter Oi
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