U+1D77 "ᵷ" Latin Small Letter Turned G Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᵷ
U+1D77 "ᵷ" Latin Small Letter Turned G is a typographic variant of the lowercase letter 'g' that has been rotated 180 degrees, making it resemble an upside-down 'g' with its tail curving upward to the right. This character is part of the Phonetic Extensions block and is primarily used in phonetic transcription to represent a voiced velar lateral approximant or similar sounds in certain linguistic and dialectal notation systems, though it is considered obsolete in modern International Phonetic Alphabet usage. Its unique shape also occasionally appears in historical or decorative typography, serving as a visual alternative to the standard letterform.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D77 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Turned G |
| Block | Phonetic Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᵷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᵷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB5 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1D77 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001D77 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1d77 |