G

How to type it

Left index finger; hold Shift for the capital. Introduced in Lesson 5: Home row: g and h.

Common uses

• G is hard in go and soft in gentle, and silent in words like sign.
• G ends the common suffix -ing.

Less common uses

• Lowercase g is the symbol for gram, a unit of mass.
• In music, G is the note a fifth above C.
• Roman writers made G as a variation of C, so the two letters are close relatives.