U+A77E "Ꝿ" Latin Capital Letter Turned Insular G Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꝿ
U+A77E "Ꝿ" Latin Capital Letter Turned Insular G is a historical typographic symbol used primarily in medieval and early modern manuscripts, particularly in Old English and Irish orthography, where it represented a velar or palatal fricative sound, similar to the modern "gh" in "night." This character is formed by rotating the insular G, a variant of the Latin letter G commonly employed in Insular scripts, by 180 degrees, creating a unique glyph that distinguished specific phonetic values in written texts. It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block of Unicode, which contains a range of medievalist and scholarly characters, and its inclusion allows for precise digital reproduction of historical documents and linguistic research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A77E |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Turned Insular G |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꝿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꝿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9D 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA77E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A77E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua77e |
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 | "ꝿ" U+A77F Latin Small Letter Turned Insular G |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꝿ" U+A77F Latin Small Letter Turned Insular G |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꝿ" U+A77F Latin Small Letter Turned Insular G |
| Case Folding | "ꝿ" U+A77F Latin Small Letter Turned Insular G |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꝿ" U+A77F Latin Small Letter Turned Insular G |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꝿ" U+A77F Latin Small Letter Turned 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 |