U+0112 "Ē" Latin Capital Letter E with Macron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ē
U+0112 "Ē" Latin Capital Letter E with Macron is a precomposed character representing the letter E with a macron diacritic, a horizontal line placed above the letter, which typically indicates a long vowel sound in various languages. It is commonly used in Latin transliterations of languages such as Hawaiian, Māori, and Latvian, as well as in the romanization of Japanese (Hepburn system) and other Asian languages. In phonetic transcription, it often denotes a long, tense, or high-mid front unrounded vowel. This character is distinct from a regular E followed by a combining macron, and it belongs to the Latin Extended-A block, enabling consistent text representation and processing across digital systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0112 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter E with Macron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter E Macron |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "E" U+0045 Latin Capital Letter E "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ē |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ē |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0112 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000112 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0112 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ē" U+0113 Latin Small Letter E with Macron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ē" U+0113 Latin Small Letter E with Macron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ē" U+0113 Latin Small Letter E with Macron |
| Case Folding | "ē" U+0113 Latin Small Letter E with Macron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ē" U+0113 Latin Small Letter E with Macron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ē" U+0113 Latin Small Letter E with Macron |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |