U+0194 "Ɣ" Latin Capital Letter Gamma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0194 "Ɣ" Latin Capital Letter Gamma is a distinct letter used in several African languages, including Ewe, Kabyle, and Dagbani, where it represents a voiced velar fricative sound, similar to the "g" in the Spanish word "agua." It is visually based on the Greek capital letter gamma but is encoded separately in Unicode as part of the Latin Extended B block to serve this phonetic role. The character should not be confused with the Greek gamma or other visually similar symbols, as it has its own specific encoding and linguistic purpose.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0194 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Gamma |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ɣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ɣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0194 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000194 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0194 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ɣ" U+0263 Latin Small Letter Gamma |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ɣ" U+0263 Latin Small Letter Gamma |
| Simple Case Folding | "ɣ" U+0263 Latin Small Letter Gamma |
| Case Folding | "ɣ" U+0263 Latin Small Letter Gamma |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɣ" U+0263 Latin Small Letter Gamma |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɣ" U+0263 Latin Small Letter Gamma |
| 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 |