U+10434 "𐐴" Deseret Small Letter Ay Unicode Character

U+10434 "𐐴" Deseret Small Letter Ay is a historical orthographic symbol from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic script invented in the mid-19th century by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under Brigham Young to simplify English spelling and promote literacy among Mormon settlers. This lowercase letter represents the long A sound, as in the word "say," and was part of a failed attempt to create a distinct Mormon cultural identity. The Deseret script, though never widely adopted, is preserved in Unicode for historical and scholarly purposes, and this character is encoded in the Deseret block alongside its uppercase counterpart, U+10404, for use in digital texts.