U+1D83 "ᶃ" Latin Small Letter G with Palatal Hook Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1D83 "ᶃ" Latin Small Letter G with Palatal Hook is a phonetic symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to denote a voiced velar plosive that has been modified by a palatal articulation, typically found in the transcription of certain dialects or linguistic contexts where a palatalized "g" sound occurs. It consists of a standard lowercase "g" with a small hook attached to its upper right side, indicating a raised tongue position toward the hard palate during pronunciation. This character falls within the Latin Extended Additional block of Unicode and is primarily employed by linguists and phoneticians for precise phonetic transcription, especially in the documentation of minority languages or in historical linguistic reconstructions.

General Properties

Code Point U+1D83
Version Added 4.1
Name Latin Small Letter G with Palatal Hook
Block Phonetic Extensions Supplement
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᶃ
HTML Hex Encoding ᶃ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xB6 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1D83
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001D83
C/C++/Java Escape \u1d83

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
Cased 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