U+0122 "Ģ" Latin Capital Letter G with Cedilla Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ģ
U+0122 "Ģ" Latin Capital Letter G with Cedilla is a modified version of the standard Latin letter G, distinguished by a small hook or cedilla attached beneath it. This character is primarily used in the Latvian alphabet, where it represents a palatalized or softened sound, typically transcribed as a voiced palatal plosive. It is also occasionally employed in other languages and transcriptions to indicate a similar phonetic modification of the hard G sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0122 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter G with Cedilla |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter G Cedilla |
| 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+0327 Combining Cedilla |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ģ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ģ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0122 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000122 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0122 |
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 | "ģ" U+0123 Latin Small Letter G with Cedilla |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ģ" U+0123 Latin Small Letter G with Cedilla |
| Simple Case Folding | "ģ" U+0123 Latin Small Letter G with Cedilla |
| Case Folding | "ģ" U+0123 Latin Small Letter G with Cedilla |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ģ" U+0123 Latin Small Letter G with Cedilla |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ģ" U+0123 Latin Small Letter G with Cedilla |
| 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 |