U+2141 Turned Sans-Serif Capital G
U+2141 was added to Unicode in version 3.2 (2002). It belongs to the block Letterlike Symbols in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as game.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+2141 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
ᵷ or turned g is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed by rotating g 180°. It is used to transliterate the Georgian letter ჹ. ჹ itself is the Georgian letter გ "g" rotated. It represents a [ɢ] in some East Caucasian languages.
In 1900, turned g was a proposed phonetic symbol in the International Phonetic Association’s Exposé des principes.
A rotated capital G has sometimes been used as a substitute for the similar-looking eng [ŋ]. It is encoded in Unicode at U+2141. It looks similar to the Pe.(פ) ᵷ was added to Unicode 4.1 in 2005, as U+1D77. Fonts that can display the character include Code2000, Doulos SIL and Charis SIL. Lowercase "B with hook," an IPA letter that resembles a turned one-story g, is more widely available as a substitute, at U+0253. However the vertical alignment does not match.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8513 |
| UTF-8 | E2 85 81 |
| UTF-16 | 21 41 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 21 41 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%85%81 |
| HTML-Escape | ⅁ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â |
| alias | game |
Related Characters
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 3.2 (2002) | |
| TURNED SANS-SERIF CAPITAL G | |
| — | |
| Letterlike Symbols | |
| Math Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Turned Sans-Serif Capital G | |
| ✘ | |
| Turned Sans-Serif Capital G | |
| Turned Sans-Serif Capital G | |
| ✘ | |
| Turned Sans-Serif Capital G | |
| Turned Sans-Serif Capital G | |
| Turned Sans-Serif Capital G | |
| Turned Sans-Serif Capital G | |
| Turned Sans-Serif Capital G | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Turned Sans-Serif Capital G | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Turned Sans-Serif Capital G | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Turned Sans-Serif Capital G | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Turned Sans-Serif Capital G | |
| R |