U+0047 "G" Latin Capital Letter G Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
G
U+0047 "G" Latin Capital Letter G is the standard encoding for the uppercase version of the seventh letter of the Latin alphabet, a symbol universally recognized in written English and many other languages that use a Latin script. It is visually represented as a curved uppercase G with a horizontal line or terminal across its lower right stem, and it is stored as a single byte in ASCII encoding, where it holds the decimal value 71. This character serves as a foundational glyph for digital text, appearing at the beginning of words, in abbreviations, and as a variable in scientific and mathematical notation, deriving from the ancient Greek gamma through the Etruscan and Roman alphabets.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0047 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter G |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | G |
| HTML Hex Encoding | G |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0x47 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0047 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000047 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0047 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Narrow |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "g" U+0067 Latin Small Letter G |
| Lowercase Code Point | "g" U+0067 Latin Small Letter G |
| Simple Case Folding | "g" U+0067 Latin Small Letter G |
| Case Folding | "g" U+0067 Latin Small Letter G |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "g" U+0067 Latin Small Letter G |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "g" U+0067 Latin Small Letter G |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |