U+011F "ğ" Latin Small Letter G with Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+011F "ğ" Latin Small Letter G with Breve is a distinct letter used primarily in the Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Crimean Tatar alphabets, where it represents a soft or silent sound often described as a voiced velar approximant or a lengthening of the preceding vowel. It is formed by placing a breve diacritic (a curved mark) over the lowercase letter g, and its uppercase counterpart is U+011E (Ğ). In Turkish, for example, it typically lengthens the vowel before it or becomes silent in certain phonetic contexts, such as in the word "dağ" meaning mountain. This character is encoded in the Latin Extended-A block of Unicode, ensuring its proper representation in digital text for languages that rely on this distinctive phoneme.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+011F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter G with Breve |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter G Breve |
| 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+0306 Combining Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ğ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ğ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x011F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000011F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u011f |
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 | "Ğ" U+011E Latin Capital Letter G with Breve |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ğ" U+011E Latin Capital Letter G with Breve |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ğ" U+011E Latin Capital Letter G with Breve |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ğ" U+011E Latin Capital Letter G with Breve |
| 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 |