U+10408 "𐐈" Deseret Capital Letter Short A Unicode Character

U+10408 "𐐈" Deseret Capital Letter Short A is a letter from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic script developed in the mid-19th century by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under Brigham Young to simplify English spelling and improve literacy. This particular character represents the short 'a' vowel sound, as in the word "cat," and it is encoded in the Unicode standard's Deseret block, which includes both uppercase and lowercase forms. Although the alphabet was used for a limited time in Mormon communities and in early Utah Territory publications, it largely fell out of use by the 1870s, and the character is now primarily of historical and scholarly interest.