U+1044E Deseret Small Letter Oi
U+1044E was added to Unicode in version 4.0 (2003). It belongs to the block
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Deseret script. It is related to its uppercase variant
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+1044E behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The Deseret alphabet ( ; Deseret: ๐๐ฏ๐ ๐จ๐๐ฏ๐ป or ๐๐ฏ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฏ๐ป) is a phonemic English-language spelling reform developed between 1847 and 1854 by the board of regents of the University of Deseret under the leadership of Brigham Young, the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). George D. Watt is reported to have been the most actively involved in the development of the script's novel characters,:โ159โ which were used to replace those of Isaac Pitman's English phonotypic alphabet. He was also the "New Alphabet's" first serious user.:โ12โ
The Deseret alphabet was an outgrowth of the idealism and utopianism of Young and the early LDS Church. Young and the Mormon pioneers believed "all aspects of life" were in need of reform for the imminent millennium, and the Deseret alphabet was just one of many ways in which they sought to bring about a complete "transformation in society,":โ142โ in anticipation of the Second Coming of Jesus. Young wrote of the reform that "it would represent every sound used in the construction of any known language; and, in fact, a step and partial return to a pure language which has been promised unto us in the latter days," which meant the pure Adamic language spoken before the Tower of Babel.
In public statements, Young claimed the alphabet would replace the traditional Latin alphabet with an alternative, more phonetically accurate alphabet for the English language. This would offer immigrants an opportunity to learn to read and write English, the orthography of which, he said, is often less phonetically consistent than those of many other languages.:โ65โ66โ Similar neographies have been attempted, the most well-known of which for English is the Shavian alphabet. Young also proposed teaching the alphabet in the school system, stating "It will be the means of introducing uniformity in our orthography, and the years that are now required to learn to read and spell can be devoted to other studies."
Between 1854 and 1869, the Alphabet was used in scriptural newspaper passages, selected church records, a few diaries, and some correspondence. Occasional street signs and posters used the new letters. In 1860 a $5 gold coin was embossed ๐๐ฌ๐๐จ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ป๐ญ ๐ ๐ข๐ซ๐๐ผ (Holiness to the Lord). In 1868-9, after much difficulty creating suitable fonts, four books were printed: two school primers, the full Book of Mormon, and a first portion of it, intended as a third school reader.
Despite repeated and costly promotion by the early LDS Church, the alphabet never enjoyed widespread use, and it has been regarded by historians as a failure. However, in recent years, aided by digital typography, the Deseret Alphabet has been revived as a cultural heirloom.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nยบ | 66638 |
UTF-8 | F0 90 91 8E |
UTF-16 | D8 01 DC 4E |
UTF-32 | 00 01 04 4E |
URL-Quoted | %F0%90%91%8E |
HTML hex reference | 𐑎 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | รฐยโลฝ |
Related Characters
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Complete Record
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DESERET SMALL LETTER OI | |
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Deseret | |
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Deseret | |
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0 | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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Yes | |
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โ | |
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Neutral | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
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