U+A77D "Ᵹ" Latin Capital Letter Insular G Unicode Character

U+A77D "Ᵹ" Latin Capital Letter Insular G is a typographic variant of the letter G that was historically used in Insular script, a distinctive style of writing developed in early medieval Ireland and Britain. It features a unique, rounded shape with a loop that differs from the standard Carolingian G, and it was commonly employed in Old English and Irish manuscripts to represent the /ɡ/ or sometimes /j/ sound. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block and serves as the uppercase counterpart to U+0261 "ɡ" Latin Small Letter Insular G, preserving a visual link to early medieval calligraphy and textual traditions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A77D
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter Insular G
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ᵹ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ᵹ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9D 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA77D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A77D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua77d

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	"ᵹ" U+1D79 Latin Small Letter Insular G
Lowercase Code Point	"ᵹ" U+1D79 Latin Small Letter Insular G
Simple Case Folding	"ᵹ" U+1D79 Latin Small Letter Insular G
Case Folding	"ᵹ" U+1D79 Latin Small Letter Insular G
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ᵹ" U+1D79 Latin Small Letter Insular G
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᵹ" U+1D79 Latin Small Letter Insular G
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