U+1044E "𐑎" Deseret Small Letter Oi Unicode Character

U+1044E "𐑎" Deseret Small Letter Oi is a glyph from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic writing system developed in the mid-19th century by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under Brigham Young to simplify English spelling. This specific character represents the vowel sound commonly heard in words like "boy" or "voice," corresponding to the diphthong /ɔɪ/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It is part of the Deseret block in Unicode, which was added to support historical and scholarly texts, and its lowercase form mirrors the uppercase version U+10426 while being distinct from other alphabetic characters in the script.