Ǧ

G with ɠ
Writing direction	Left-to-Right
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Ǧ (miniscule: ǧ), called G with caron, is a letter used in several Latin orthographies.^[1]

In the

languages, it represents the palatalized g [ɟ͡ʝ].

It has also been used in Czech and Slovak orthographies until the middle of the 19th century to represent a voiced velar plosive (IPA: [g]; the English G-sound), whereas a regular ⟨G⟩ stood for a voiced palatal approximant (IPA: [j]; the English Y-sound in).

In the romanization of

).

In the

-sound).

In Lakota, ⟨ǧ⟩ represents a voiced uvular fricative (IPA: [ʁ]; an English R-sound)

In Heiltsuk, it represents a plain uvular plosive [q].

In the

.

In Latvian, ⟨ǧ⟩ is also used as a handwritten form of ⟨ģ⟩, particularly in cursive writing.

Character information

Preview	Ǧ		ǧ
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G WITH CARON		LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH CARON
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	486	U+01E6	487	U+01E7
UTF-8	199 166	C7 A6	199 167	C7 A7
Numeric character reference	Ǧ	Ǧ	ǧ	ǧ

• Ğ (with breve)