Deseret Small Letter Pee

𐐹 is the lowercase Deseret letter for the p sound, as in “pea.” The Deseret alphabet was an English spelling reform: Brigham Young asked a Utah university board to pursue it in 1850, and by 1853 the board had considered Isaac Pitman’s sound-based system before choosing distinct letters. The 1854 plan aimed to help children and immigrants who did not speak English learn it; primers and scripture followed, but the alphabet largely fell out of use after 1877.

Text symbol

What 𐐹 means

𐐹 is the deseret small letter pee. Unicode classifies it as a lowercase letter and files it in the Deseret block; this site shelves it under American scripts.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𐐹 is a single code point, U10439. In HTML that is 𐐹, and in CSS \10439.

Part of the collection

𐐀

Deseret & Shavian Alphabets

Who writes 𐐹

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Worth knowing

In a 19th-century Deseret spelling convention, a letter could stand alone when its name was also a word; under that rule, 𐐹 could spell “pee.”

Questions people ask

Why does 𐐹 show as a box on some devices?

Not every system ships a font for the Deseret block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.