U+01E5 "ǥ" Latin Small Letter G with Stroke Unicode Character

U+01E5 "ǥ" Latin Small Letter G with Stroke is a variant of the standard Latin letter G that features a horizontal stroke through its upper portion, and it is primarily used in certain alphabets for transcribing medieval Scandinavian languages or in phonetic notation to represent a specific velar or palatal fricative sound. In historical contexts, it appears in Old Norse and related texts alongside its uppercase counterpart U+01E4 "Ǥ", where the stroke often indicates a softened or spirant pronunciation. The character is encoded in the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode, ensuring its digital representation for scholarly works and linguistic documentation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+01E5
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter G with Stroke
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter G Bar
Block	Latin Extended-B
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ǥ
HTML Hex Encoding	ǥ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC7 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x01E5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000001E5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u01e5

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ǥ" U+01E4 Latin Capital Letter G with Stroke
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ǥ" U+01E4 Latin Capital Letter G with Stroke
Uppercase Code Point	"Ǥ" U+01E4 Latin Capital Letter G with Stroke
Titlecase Code Point	"Ǥ" U+01E4 Latin Capital Letter G with Stroke
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