Turned g

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.

Usage
In 1844, Bartłomiej Beniowski created his Anti-absurd or Phenotypic alphabet, featuring turned g for the diphthong.

In 1880, John Wesley Powell created a phonetic transcription for transcribing Native American languages in publications of the Smithsonian Institution. In the transcriptions, turned letters were used as supplementary characters. In 1900, turned g was a proposed phonetic symbol in the International Phonetic Association’s Exposé des principes to represent a voiceless laminal closed postalveolar sibilant, as found in Adyghe, and other Northwest Caucasian languages.

Franz Boas used turned g to represent the voiced velar fricative in his transcription of the Kwakʼwala language, published in American Anthropologist in 1900.

In 1921, and  used turned g in their phonetic transcription, notably in ' published in 1892 or the dictionary ' published in 1921.

In 1929, Tadeusz Jan Kowalski used the turned g and turned k in Karaim language texts to represent an alveolar plosive pronounced as a velar plosive before the vowel. Omeljan Pritsak reused this in a 1959 Karaim work.

Turned g represents a in the transcription of the Tabasaran language by Alexander Amarovich Magometov in his book Табасаранский язык: Исследование и тексты published in 1965.

A rotated capital G (⅁) has sometimes been used as a substitute for the similar-looking eng. It is encoded in Unicode at U+2141. It looks similar to the Hebrew letter Pe $⟨פ⟩$.

Computing codes
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 "ɓ|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.