What 𐑏 means
The English “yoo” sound, as in “few.”
Church leaders promoted Deseret to help children and immigrant converts learn English. Its designer, George D. Watt, had studied Isaac Pitman’s shorthand, a system for quickly recording speech.
Was EW part of the standard Deseret alphabet?
No; EW appeared only in expanded versions.
A letter George D. Watt sent Church president Brigham Young in 1854 uses the expanded version. The final printed alphabet spelled this sound with two letters.
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Who writes 𐑏
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Worth knowing
- Why can old Deseret EW look different? Unicode shows its 1854–55 form; by 1859–60, handwriting and metal type used a reshaped form. A historical scan may show that later shape.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𐑏 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 𐑏
- Search it as
- yoo · yu · you · few · cue
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𐑏CSS
\1044FCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𐑏
HTML hex
𐑏
CSS content
content: "\1044F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%90%91%8F
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.