U+1E21 "ḡ" Latin Small Letter G with Macron Unicode Character

U+1E21 "ḡ" Latin Small Letter G with Macron is a specialized letter used primarily in transliteration and linguistic notation, representing a voiced velar fricative or fricative-like sound, particularly in romanizations of Semitic languages like Arabic, where it corresponds to the letter ghayn. It consists of the standard lowercase "g" combined with a macron, a horizontal line placed above the letter to indicate a prolonged or emphatic pronunciation. This character is distinct from the plain "g" and is encoded separately in Unicode to support accurate textual representation in digital typography for scholarly and language documentation purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E21
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter G with Macron
Block	Latin Extended Additional
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"g" U+0067 Latin Small Letter G "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ḡ
HTML Hex Encoding	ḡ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB8 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1E21
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001E21
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1e21

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ḡ" U+1E20 Latin Capital Letter G with Macron
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ḡ" U+1E20 Latin Capital Letter G with Macron
Uppercase Code Point	"Ḡ" U+1E20 Latin Capital Letter G with Macron
Titlecase Code Point	"Ḡ" U+1E20 Latin Capital Letter G with Macron
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