U+10403 "𐐃" Deseret Capital Letter Long Ah Unicode Character

U+10403 "𐐃" Deseret Capital Letter Long Ah is a glyph 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's direction to simplify English spelling and promote literacy among Mormon pioneers. This specific character represents the "long ah" vowel sound, as in the word "father," and is the uppercase form used at the beginning of sentences or proper nouns. Phonetically transcribed as /ɑː/, it corresponds to one of several vowel distinctions in the alphabet's design, which never saw widespread adoption and is now primarily of historical and linguistic interest, included in Unicode for digital preservation of the script.