U+A77D "Ᵹ" Latin Capital Letter Insular G Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+A77D "Ᵹ" Latin Capital Letter Insular G is a typographic variant of the letter G that was historically used in Insular script, a distinctive style of writing developed in early medieval Ireland and Britain. It features a unique, rounded shape with a loop that differs from the standard Carolingian G, and it was commonly employed in Old English and Irish manuscripts to represent the /ɡ/ or sometimes /j/ sound. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block and serves as the uppercase counterpart to U+0261 "ɡ" Latin Small Letter Insular G, preserving a visual link to early medieval calligraphy and textual traditions.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A77D
Name
Latin Capital Letter Insular G
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ᵹ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ᵹ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0x9D 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA77D
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A77D
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua77d
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Latin