U+0121 "ġ" Latin Small Letter G with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+0121 "ġ" Latin Small Letter G with Dot Above is a specialized letter used primarily in the transliteration and orthography of several languages to represent a distinct phoneme. It appears in the romanization of Arabic, Persian, and Maltese, where it typically denotes a voiced velar fricative sound similar to the "g" in "go" but produced further back in the throat. This character also features in the writing systems of some Irish and Old English transcriptions, as well as in the Livonian language, where it indicates a palatalized or soft "g" sound. The dot above serves as a diacritic to modify the pronunciation of the base Latin letter "g", distinguishing it from its unmarked counterpart in written texts.
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Latin Capital Letter G with Dot Above
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General Properties
Code Point
U+0121
Name
Latin Small Letter G with Dot Above
Unicode 1.0 Name
Latin Small Letter G Dot
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ġ
HTML Hex Encoding
ġ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xC4 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0121
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000121
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0121
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Script Extensions
Latin