U+1E20 "Ḡ" Latin Capital Letter G with Macron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ḡ
U+1E20 "Ḡ" Latin Capital Letter G with Macron is a specialized letter used primarily in transliteration and linguistic transcription, where the macron diacritic above the G indicates a long or geminated pronunciation of the consonant, often representing a voiced velar stop in ancient languages such as Sanskrit or Old English. It also appears in some modern orthographies, like the writing of the Aleut language, where it denotes a uvular sound distinct from the plain G. This character is rarely found in everyday text but serves a crucial role in scholarly works, dictionaries, and academic notations requiring precise phonetic or historical representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E20 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter G with Macron |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "G" U+0047 Latin Capital Letter G "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E20 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E20 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e20 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ḡ" U+1E21 Latin Small Letter G with Macron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḡ" U+1E21 Latin Small Letter G with Macron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḡ" U+1E21 Latin Small Letter G with Macron |
| Case Folding | "ḡ" U+1E21 Latin Small Letter G with Macron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḡ" U+1E21 Latin Small Letter G with Macron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḡ" U+1E21 Latin Small Letter G with Macron |
| 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 | Upper |