U+0490 "Ґ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Upturn Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+0490 "Ґ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Upturn is a distinct letter in the Cyrillic script, primarily used in modern Ukrainian and also in some minority languages like Rusyn. It represents the voiced velar plosive sound /ɡ/, which contrasts with the standard Cyrillic letter "Г" that in Ukrainian typically denotes a voiced glottal fricative /ɦ/. The letter features an upturn or hook added to the top right of the standard "Г" shape, visually distinguishing it. Historically, its usage was suppressed during periods of Soviet orthographic reform in the 20th century, but it was officially restored to the Ukrainian alphabet in 1990, marking a significant step in the language's cultural and linguistic independence.
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Cyrillic Small Letter Ghe with Upturn
General Properties
Code Point
U+0490
Name
Cyrillic Capital Letter Ghe with Upturn
Unicode 1.0 Name
Cyrillic Capital Letter Ge with Upturn
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ґ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ґ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xD2 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0490
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000490
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0490
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Cyrillic