U+10446 "𐑆" Deseret Small Letter Zee Unicode Character

U+10446 "𐑆" Deseret Small Letter Zee is a letter from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic script created in the mid-19th century in the United States under the direction of Mormon leader Brigham Young to simplify English spelling and literacy. This character specifically represents the voiced "zee" or "z" sound, akin to the modern English letter Z. The Deseret alphabet was used in a handful of published books and newspapers during the 1850s and 1860s but never gained widespread adoption, and it fell out of use by the early 20th century. Today, "𐑆" and its uppercase counterpart are encoded in Unicode under the Deseret block (U+10400 to U+1044F) to preserve this historical writing system for digital and academic purposes.