U+10400 "𐐀" Deseret Capital Letter Long I Unicode Character

U+10400 "𐐀" Deseret Capital Letter Long I is a letter from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic script created in the mid-19th century by the Latter-day Saint (Mormon) community in Utah, under the direction of Brigham Young, to simplify English spelling and promote literacy. This uppercase character represents the long "I" vowel sound, as in the word "bite," and is part of the Deseret block in Unicode, which was added in version 3.1 in 2001 to preserve this historical writing system for digital use. Though the Deseret alphabet never gained widespread adoption and fell out of common use by the 1870s, its inclusion in Unicode allows scholars, historians, and enthusiasts to access and study this unique linguistic artifact in modern computing environments.