U+0263 "ɣ" Latin Small Letter Gamma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ɣ
U+0263 "ɣ" Latin Small Letter Gamma is a distinct typographic symbol representing the voiced velar fricative, a consonant sound produced by constricting airflow at the back of the mouth with vibrating vocal cords, as heard in the Spanish word "amigo" or the Greek letter gamma from which its shape derives. It is widely employed in the International Phonetic Alphabet for phonetic transcription of various languages, including many African and Native American languages, and also serves as a technical symbol in some linguistic and mathematical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0263 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Gamma |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ɣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ɣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC9 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0263 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000263 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0263 |
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 | "Ɣ" U+0194 Latin Capital Letter Gamma |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ɣ" U+0194 Latin Capital Letter Gamma |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ɣ" U+0194 Latin Capital Letter Gamma |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ɣ" U+0194 Latin Capital Letter Gamma |
| 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 |