U+0121 "ġ" Latin Small Letter G with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ġ
U+0121 "ġ" Latin Small Letter G with Dot Above is a specialized letter used primarily in the transliteration and orthography of several languages to represent a distinct phoneme. It appears in the romanization of Arabic, Persian, and Maltese, where it typically denotes a voiced velar fricative sound similar to the "g" in "go" but produced further back in the throat. This character also features in the writing systems of some Irish and Old English transcriptions, as well as in the Livonian language, where it indicates a palatalized or soft "g" sound. The dot above serves as a diacritic to modify the pronunciation of the base Latin letter "g", distinguishing it from its unmarked counterpart in written texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0121 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter G with Dot Above |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter G Dot |
| 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+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ġ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ġ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0121 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000121 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0121 |
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 | "Ġ" U+0120 Latin Capital Letter G with Dot Above |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ġ" U+0120 Latin Capital Letter G with Dot Above |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ġ" U+0120 Latin Capital Letter G with Dot Above |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ġ" U+0120 Latin Capital Letter G with Dot Above |
| 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 |