G
7th letter of the Latin alphabet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with the Cyrillic letter Komi Sje (Ԍ) or the Voiced uvular plosive (ɢ).
This article is about the letter of the alphabet. For other uses, see G (disambiguation).
For technical reasons, "G#" redirects here. For the musical note, see G♯ (musical note).
G, or g, is the seventh letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages, and others worldwide. Its name in English is gee (pronounced /ˈdʒiː/), plural gees.[1]
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Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabetic |
Language of origin | Latin language |
Phonetic usage | |
Unicode codepoint | U+0047, U+0067, U+0261 |
Alphabetical position | 7 |
History | |
Development | |
Time period | ~-300 to present |
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Transliteration equivalents | C |
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Other letters commonly used with | gh, g(x) |
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. |
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The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the single-storey (sometimes "opentail") and the double-storey (sometimes "looptail") . The former is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children.