U+A7D1 "ꟑ" Latin Small Letter Closed Insular G Unicode Character

U+A7D1 "ꟑ" Latin Small Letter Closed Insular G is a typographic and historical letter added to the Unicode Standard to support the accurate representation of medieval Insular script, specifically for transliterating early Irish and Anglo‑Saxon manuscripts. Its closed form, with the top of the letter fully enclosing the bowl, distinguishes it from the more common open‑shaped insular g, and it is used in scholarly editions to preserve the exact visual distinction between the two glyphs. This character aids philologists and paleographers in faithfully reproducing and studying the orthographic nuances of Old English and Old Irish texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A7D1
Version Added	14.0
Name	Latin Small Letter Closed Insular G
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ꟑ
HTML Hex Encoding	ꟑ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9F 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA7D1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A7D1
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua7d1

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	"Ꟑ" U+A7D0 Latin Capital Letter Closed Insular G
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꟑ" U+A7D0 Latin Capital Letter Closed Insular G
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꟑ" U+A7D0 Latin Capital Letter Closed Insular G
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꟑ" U+A7D0 Latin Capital Letter Closed 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