U+10427 "𐐧" Deseret Capital Letter Ew Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+10427 "𐐧" Deseret Capital Letter Ew is a symbol from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic writing system created 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. This specific character represents the vowel sound found in words like "few" or "beauty," corresponding to the /juː/ phoneme. The Deseret alphabet was used briefly in the Utah territory for religious and educational texts but never gained widespread adoption, making characters like U+10427 a rare piece of typographic history, preserved today in the Unicode Standard for digital use.
General Properties
Code Point
U+10427
Name
Deseret Capital Letter Ew
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
𐐧
HTML Hex Encoding
𐐧
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x90 0x90 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD801 0xDC27
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00010427
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud801\udc27
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Deseret