U+2141 Turned Sans-Serif Capital G
U+2141 was added in Unicode version 3.2 in 2002. It belongs to the block
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 no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+2141 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
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 |
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Nº | 8513 |
UTF-8 | E2 85 81 |
UTF-16 | 21 41 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 21 41 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%85%81 |
HTML hex reference | ⅁ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â… |
alias | game |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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TURNED SANS-SERIF CAPITAL G | |
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