U+A7A0 "Ꞡ" Latin Capital Letter G with Oblique Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꞡ
U+A7A0 "Ꞡ" Latin Capital Letter G with Oblique Stroke is a specialized typographic variant of the letter G, distinguished by a diagonal slash that runs through its upper portion, and it belongs to the Latin Extended-D block. Primarily used in historical and linguistic contexts, this character appears in certain early twentieth century orthographies for languages such as Yakut and in the transliteration of Cyrillic scripts, where it represents a voiced velar fricative or a similar sound distinct from the standard G. Its inclusion in Unicode supports digital representation of linguistic documentation and scholarly texts that require precise phonetic or orthographic notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7A0 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter G with Oblique Stroke |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꞡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꞡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9E 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7A0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7A0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7a0 |
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 | "ꞡ" U+A7A1 Latin Small Letter G with Oblique Stroke |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꞡ" U+A7A1 Latin Small Letter G with Oblique Stroke |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꞡ" U+A7A1 Latin Small Letter G with Oblique Stroke |
| Case Folding | "ꞡ" U+A7A1 Latin Small Letter G with Oblique Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꞡ" U+A7A1 Latin Small Letter G with Oblique Stroke |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꞡ" U+A7A1 Latin Small Letter G with Oblique Stroke |
| 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 |