U+A77F "ꝿ" Latin Small Letter Turned Insular G Unicode Character

U+A77F "ꝿ" Latin Small Letter Turned Insular G is a typographic variant used in historical linguistics and medieval manuscript studies, representing a rotated or turned version of the insular G found in Old English and Old Norse orthography. This character was employed to indicate a specific phonetic value, often a palatal or velar approximant, in early transcriptions of Insular Celtic and Germanic languages before the standardization of the modern Latin alphabet. It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and is primarily of interest to paleographers and scholars reconstructing historical pronunciation, as it preserves a scribal convention that differentiated sounds in texts such as the Lindisfarne Gospels or other insular manuscripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A77F
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Turned Insular G
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA77F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A77F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua77f

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
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ꝿ" U+A77E Latin Capital Letter Turned Insular G
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝿ" U+A77E Latin Capital Letter Turned Insular G
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꝿ" U+A77E Latin Capital Letter Turned Insular G
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꝿ" U+A77E Latin Capital Letter Turned Insular G
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