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Ghe with upturn
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<p>Ge or G (Ґ ґ; italics: <i>Ґ</i> <i>ґ</i>) is a letter of the <a href="/facts/Cyrillic_script/0btN3oWC">Cyrillic script</a>. It is part of the <a href="/facts/Ukrainian_alphabet/RXdMx44m">Ukrainian alphabet</a>, the <a href="/facts/Pannonian_Rusyn_language/2mnY0XPK">Pannonian Rusyn alphabet</a> and both the <a href="/facts/Rusyn_language/T1XYCasx">Carpathian Rusyn alphabets</a>, and also some variants of the <a href="/facts/Urum_language/0EakWJpj">Urum</a> and <a href="/facts/Belarusian_language/yRuE1cfX">Belarusian</a> (i.e. <a href="/facts/Tara%25C5%25A1kievica/6lSbu1g6">Belarusian Classical Orthography</a>) alphabets. In these languages it is usually called <i>ge</i>, while the letter it follows, ⟨<a href="/facts/Ge_(Cyrillic)/TcXbf3s2">Г г</a>⟩, is called <i>he</i>. </p><p>The <a href="/facts/Letterform/tgzRQkMD">letterform</a> of this letter is based on the letterform of the letter ⟨<a href="/facts/Ge_(Cyrillic)/TcXbf3s2">Г г</a>⟩, but its handwritten and italic lowercase forms do not follow the italic modification of ⟨г⟩: <i>г</i>. </p><p>It represents the <a href="/facts/Voiced_velar_plosive/f6udTvfQ">voiced velar plosive</a> /ɡ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨g⟩ in "go". </p><p>The letter ⟨ґ⟩ is usually romanized using the Latin letter <i>g</i>, or sometimes <i>ġ</i> with a dot or <i>g̀</i> with a grave accent. </p><p>In the <a href="/facts/Unicode/DDu3MfPV">Unicode</a> system for text encoding, the characters representing this letter are called CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH UPTURN (code point <a href="/facts/Unicode/DDu3MfPV">U+</a>0490) and CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH UPTURN (<a href="/facts/Unicode/DDu3MfPV">U+</a>0491), while the unmodified characters representing the letter ⟨г⟩ are called CYRILLIC CAPITAL and SMALL LETTER GHE (<a href="/facts/Unicode/DDu3MfPV">U+</a>0413 and <a href="/facts/Unicode/DDu3MfPV">U+</a>0433). </p>