U+10420 "𐐠" Deseret Capital Letter Zhee Unicode Character

U+10420 "𐐠" Deseret Capital Letter Zhee is part of the Deseret alphabet, a phonemic script developed in the mid 19th century by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under the direction of Brigham Young to simplify English spelling and promote literacy. This specific character represents the voiced postalveolar fricative sound, similar to the "s" in "measure" or the "g" in "beige," and it appears in the Deseret block of the Unicode Standard, which was added to support historical and religious texts. The capital form of this letter is used primarily for proper nouns and the beginning of sentences, following standard orthographic conventions of the alphabet. Though the Deseret script saw limited adoption and fell out of common use by the 1870s, it remains a subject of scholarly interest and is preserved in digital encoding for archival and linguistic purposes.