G

G is the seventh letter of the latin alphabet. Its unicode points are Latin Capital Letter G, U+0047 (G) and Latin Small Letter G, U+0067 (g).

Appearance

The latin letter G is derived from the letter C with an extra hook or descender.

A capital letter G looks very similar to a Cyrillic Capital Letter Komi Sje, U+050C (Ԍ).

The lower case g has two main variants: A double-storey (or carolingian) g and a single-storey g.

Usage

The letter g is used by most languages that use the latin alphabet, except those with no voiced plosives, like Finnish (though they use it in the digraph <ng>).

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, it is not officially used, as a single-storey g is preferred. This is encoded at Latin Small Letter Script G, U+0261 (ɡ), and represents a voiced velar plosive.

Diacritics and derivations

Here are the diacritics, that can be put on a letter g, and are precomposed in unicode.

Above the letter:

Diacritic	Capital	Unicode point	Lower case	Unicode point	Usage
Dot (˙)	Ġ	U+0120	ġ	U+0121	e.g. Old Irish
Acute (´)	Ǵ	U+01F4	ǵ	U+01F5	e.g. Pashto romanization
Circumflex (^)	Ĝ	U+011C	ĝ	U+011D	e.g. Esperanto
Caron (ˇ)	Ǧ	U+01E6	ǧ	U+01E7	e.g. Skolt Sami
Macron (ˉ)	Ḡ	U+1E20	ḡ	U+1E21	e.g. Kokota
Breve (˘)	Ğ	U+011E	ğ	U+011F	e.g. Turkish
Inverted comma (ʻ) (or cedilla)	Ģ	U+0122	ģ	U+0123	e.g. Latvian

Through the letter or as part of the letter:

Diacritic	Capital	Unicode point	Lower case	Unicode point	Usage
Cedilla (¸) (or comma below)	Ģ	U+0122	ģ	U+0123	e.g. Latvian
Stroke	Ǥ	U+01E4	ǥ	U+01E5	e.g. Skolt Sami
Diagonal stroke	Ꞡ	U+A7A0	ꞡ	U+A7A1	?
Hook	Ɠ	U+0193	ɠ	U+0260	e.g. Kpelle
Palatal hook			ᶃ	U+1D83	Phonetics?

Derived letters:

Variation	Capital	Unicode point	Lower case	Unicode point	Usage
Small capital			ɢ	U+0262	e.g. IPA
Script	Ɡ	U+A7AC	ɡ	U+0261	e.g. IPA
Turned	⅁	U+2141	ᵷ	U+1D77	e.g. Georgian romanization
Insular	Ᵹ	U+A77D	ᵹ	U+1D79	Midiaeval manuscripts?
Turned insular	Ꝿ	U+A77E	ꝿ	U+A77F	Phonetics?
Yogh	Ȝ	U+021C	ȝ	U+021D	e.g. Middle English
Gamma	Ɣ	U+0194	ɣ	U+0263	e.g. IPA