U+011D "ĝ" Latin Small Letter G with Circumflex Unicode Character
U+011D "ĝ" Latin Small Letter G with Circumflex is a distinct letter used in several languages, most notably in Esperanto, where it represents a voiced postalveolar affricate sound similar to the English "j" in "judge". It is also employed in the transliteration of certain Slavic languages and in older or dialectal forms of Romanian and Vietnamese. The circumflex accent modifies the standard Latin letter "g" to indicate a specific phonetic quality, and in Unicode, it is encoded as a single precomposed character to ensure consistent representation across digital text. This character is part of the Latin Extended-A block and is commonly typed by combining a base "g" with a combining circumflex accent, though the precomposed form simplifies processing in many systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+011D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter G with Circumflex |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter G Circumflex |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "g" U+0067 Latin Small Letter G "̂" U+0302 Combining Circumflex Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ĝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ĝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x011D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000011D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u011d |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ĝ" U+011C Latin Capital Letter G with Circumflex |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ĝ" U+011C Latin Capital Letter G with Circumflex |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ĝ" U+011C Latin Capital Letter G with Circumflex |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ĝ" U+011C Latin Capital Letter G with Circumflex |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |