U+1042A DESERET SMALL LETTER LONG A

The Unicode character U+1042A, officially named DESERET SMALL LETTER LONG A, was introduced in Unicode version 3.1. It is part of the Deseret block, which belongs to the Supplementary Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Lowercase Letter, this character typically falls under the Dsrt script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.