U+01E5 "ǥ" Latin Small Letter G with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+01E5 "ǥ" Latin Small Letter G with Stroke is a variant of the standard Latin letter G that features a horizontal stroke through its upper portion, and it is primarily used in certain alphabets for transcribing medieval Scandinavian languages or in phonetic notation to represent a specific velar or palatal fricative sound. In historical contexts, it appears in Old Norse and related texts alongside its uppercase counterpart U+01E4 "Ǥ", where the stroke often indicates a softened or spirant pronunciation. The character is encoded in the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode, ensuring its digital representation for scholarly works and linguistic documentation.
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Latin Capital Letter G with Stroke
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Latin Capital Letter G with Caron
General Properties
Code Point
U+01E5
Name
Latin Small Letter G with Stroke
Unicode 1.0 Name
Latin Small Letter G Bar
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ǥ
HTML Hex Encoding
ǥ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xC7 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding
0x01E5
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000001E5
C/C++/Java Escape
\u01e5
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Script Extensions
Latin