Latin Capital Letter G
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 71 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter g.
- Alt code
- Alt+71
- HTML entity
- G
- Unicode
- U+0047
About this symbol
G is a Roman invention. Early Latin used C for both the k and g sounds, and in the third century BC a stroke was added to C to make a separate G, an idea traditionally credited to Spurius Carvilius Ruga, who ran one of Rome’s first schools. G took the place in the alphabet of Z, which the Romans had dropped.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Uppercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.