U+011E "Ğ" Latin Capital Letter G with Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ğ
U+011E "Ğ" Latin Capital Letter G with Breve is a distinctive letter used in several languages, most notably in Turkish, where it represents a soft or silent g, often lengthening the preceding vowel. In Turkish orthography, this character is always a consonant, but it never appears at the beginning of a word and is typically pronounced as a glide, similar to the "y" sound in English "yes" when between certain vowels, or as a silent indicator of vowel length at the end of a syllable. Beyond Turkish, it also appears in Azeri, Crimean Tatar, and occasionally in transcriptions of Arabic and other languages, where the breve diacritic above the G indicates a short, non-syllabic pronunciation distinct from the hard g sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+011E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter G with Breve |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter G Breve |
| 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+0306 Combining Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ğ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ğ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x011E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000011E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u011e |
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 | "ğ" U+011F Latin Small Letter G with Breve |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ğ" U+011F Latin Small Letter G with Breve |
| Simple Case Folding | "ğ" U+011F Latin Small Letter G with Breve |
| Case Folding | "ğ" U+011F Latin Small Letter G with Breve |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ğ" U+011F Latin Small Letter G with Breve |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ğ" U+011F Latin Small Letter G with Breve |
| 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 |