U+011C "Ĝ" Latin Capital Letter G with Circumflex Unicode Character
U+011C "Ĝ" Latin Capital Letter G with Circumflex is a precomposed letter used primarily in the orthographies of languages such as Esperanto, where it represents a voiced postalveolar affricate sound similar to the English "j" in "judge," and in certain African languages like Gã and Nzema, where it denotes a voiced velar fricative. It is formed by adding a circumflex diacritic above the uppercase letter G, and its standard encoding in Unicode allows for consistent digital representation across platforms, with the corresponding lowercase form being U+011D "ĝ". This character is distinct from a simple letter G followed by a combining circumflex, as it is treated as a single entity for text processing and collation purposes in Esperanto and other linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+011C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter G with Circumflex |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter G Circumflex |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "G" U+0047 Latin Capital Letter G "̂" U+0302 Combining Circumflex Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ĝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ĝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x011C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000011C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u011c |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ĝ" U+011D Latin Small Letter G with Circumflex |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ĝ" U+011D Latin Small Letter G with Circumflex |
| Simple Case Folding | "ĝ" U+011D Latin Small Letter G with Circumflex |
| Case Folding | "ĝ" U+011D Latin Small Letter G with Circumflex |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ĝ" U+011D Latin Small Letter G with Circumflex |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ĝ" U+011D Latin Small Letter G with Circumflex |
| 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 |