U+0120 "Ġ" Latin Capital Letter G with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ġ
U+0120 "Ġ" Latin Capital Letter G with Dot Above is a precomposed Latin letter that represents the base character "G" with a combining dot above diacritical mark, codified as a single code point for convenience in digital text processing. This character is primarily employed in various linguistic orthographies and transliteration systems, notably in the romanization of Arabic and Maltese, where it denotes a specific phoneme distinct from a plain "G", often corresponding to a voiced velar plosive or a related sound depending on the language. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent representation across different platforms and applications, facilitating accurate textual communication in specialized writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0120 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter G with Dot Above |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter G Dot |
| 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+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ġ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ġ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0120 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000120 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0120 |
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 | "ġ" U+0121 Latin Small Letter G with Dot Above |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ġ" U+0121 Latin Small Letter G with Dot Above |
| Simple Case Folding | "ġ" U+0121 Latin Small Letter G with Dot Above |
| Case Folding | "ġ" U+0121 Latin Small Letter G with Dot Above |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ġ" U+0121 Latin Small Letter G with Dot Above |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ġ" U+0121 Latin Small Letter G with Dot Above |
| 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 |