U+1044F "𐑏" Deseret Small Letter Ew Unicode Character

U+1044F "𐑏" Deseret Small Letter Ew is a letter from the Deseret alphabet, a phonemic script 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 sound /juː/, similar to the "ew" in "few" or "u" in "unicorn," and is the lowercase form of the Deseret capital letter Ew (U+1041F). Although the Deseret alphabet was used briefly in Utah for educational and religious publications in the 1860s and 1870s, it fell out of common use, and the "Deseret Small Letter Ew" now serves primarily as a historical and linguistic curiosity within the Unicode Standard, enabling digital representation of this unique writing system.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐑏
HTML Hex Encoding	𐑏
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x91 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDC4F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001044F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udc4f

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	"𐐧" U+10427 Deseret Capital Letter Ew
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐐧" U+10427 Deseret Capital Letter Ew
Uppercase Code Point	"𐐧" U+10427 Deseret Capital Letter Ew
Titlecase Code Point	"𐐧" U+10427 Deseret Capital Letter Ew
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