U+01E6 "Ǧ" Latin Capital Letter G with Caron Unicode Character
U+01E6 "Ǧ" Latin Capital Letter G with Caron is a modified version of the standard Latin letter G, distinguished by a small wedge-shaped diacritic, known as a caron or háček, placed above it. This character is primarily used in several languages that utilize the Latin script, such as Romani, Skolt Sami, and some transliteration systems for languages like Arabic and Berber, where it typically represents a voiced palatal or velar stop, similar to the "g" in "gift" but often with a slight palatalization or as a distinct phoneme. In the context of the Latin Extended-A block within Unicode, U+01E6 serves as the uppercase form, with its lowercase counterpart being U+01E7 "ǧ", and it is encoded for compatibility with linguistic and scholarly text representation rather than for common everyday writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01E6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter G with Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter G Hacek |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| 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+030C Combining Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ǧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ǧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01E6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001E6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01e6 |
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 | "ǧ" U+01E7 Latin Small Letter G with Caron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ǧ" U+01E7 Latin Small Letter G with Caron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ǧ" U+01E7 Latin Small Letter G with Caron |
| Case Folding | "ǧ" U+01E7 Latin Small Letter G with Caron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ǧ" U+01E7 Latin Small Letter G with Caron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ǧ" U+01E7 Latin Small Letter G with Caron |
| 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 |