U+01F5 "ǵ" Latin Small Letter G with Acute Unicode Character
U+01F5 "ǵ" Latin Small Letter G with Acute is a precomposed glyph used primarily in the Latin script for the transliteration of certain Slavic languages, such as Macedonian, and for linguistic notation, where it represents a palatalized or voiced velar plosive marked by an acute accent. Also utilized in academic contexts for transcribing ancient Greek or Old Church Slavonic, this character ensures precise phonetic differentiation from the standard letter 'g' and is found in Unicode's Latin Extended-B block, where it was added to support a range of European and scholarly orthographic needs. Its composition combines the base character 'g' with the acute diacritic, enabling consistent digital representation without requiring separate combining marks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01F5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter G with Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| 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+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ǵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ǵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01F5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001F5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01f5 |
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 | "Ǵ" U+01F4 Latin Capital Letter G with Acute |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ǵ" U+01F4 Latin Capital Letter G with Acute |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ǵ" U+01F4 Latin Capital Letter G with Acute |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ǵ" U+01F4 Latin Capital Letter G with Acute |
| 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 |