U+0490 "Ґ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Upturn Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0490 "Ґ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Upturn is a distinct letter in the Cyrillic script, primarily used in modern Ukrainian and also in some minority languages like Rusyn. It represents the voiced velar plosive sound /ɡ/, which contrasts with the standard Cyrillic letter "Г" that in Ukrainian typically denotes a voiced glottal fricative /ɦ/. The letter features an upturn or hook added to the top right of the standard "Г" shape, visually distinguishing it. Historically, its usage was suppressed during periods of Soviet orthographic reform in the 20th century, but it was officially restored to the Ukrainian alphabet in 1990, marking a significant step in the language's cultural and linguistic independence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0490 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Upturn |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Ge with Upturn |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ґ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ґ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD2 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0490 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000490 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0490 |
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 | "ґ" U+0491 Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Upturn |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ґ" U+0491 Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Upturn |
| Simple Case Folding | "ґ" U+0491 Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Upturn |
| Case Folding | "ґ" U+0491 Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Upturn |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ґ" U+0491 Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Upturn |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ґ" U+0491 Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Upturn |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| 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 |