U+A7A1 "ꞡ" Latin Small Letter G with Oblique Stroke Unicode Character

U+A7A1 "ꞡ" Latin Small Letter G with Oblique Stroke is a specialized typographic letter used primarily in historical and phonetic transcriptions, particularly for representing the voiced velar fricative sound /ɣ/ in certain Latin-based orthographies. This character belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and was added to Unicode as part of efforts to encode medievalist and dialectological symbols, such as those found in the notations of early Norse or Slavic comparative linguistics. Its design features a standard lowercase “g” with a diagonal line crossing through the bowl or descender, distinguishing it visually and functionally from the similar but distinct “eng” (ŋ) or other modified Latin letters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A7A1
Version Added	6.0
Name	Latin Small Letter G with Oblique Stroke
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA7A1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A7A1
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua7a1

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	"Ꞡ" U+A7A0 Latin Capital Letter G with Oblique Stroke
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞡ" U+A7A0 Latin Capital Letter G with Oblique Stroke
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꞡ" U+A7A0 Latin Capital Letter G with Oblique Stroke
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞡ" U+A7A0 Latin Capital Letter G with Oblique Stroke
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