U+0113 "ē" Latin Small Letter E with Macron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0113 "ē" Latin Small Letter E with Macron is a standardized character that represents the letter 'e' with a macron, a horizontal line placed above it, indicating a lengthened vowel sound. This character is commonly used in the transliteration of long 'e' sounds in languages such as Latvian, Māori, and Hawaiian, as well as in academic contexts for Latin and Ancient Greek transcription. It also appears in certain romanization systems, like the Hepburn romanization of Japanese, where it denotes an extended vowel. As part of the Unicode standard, this character ensures consistent digital representation across platforms and applications, facilitating accurate text processing and linguistic studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0113 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter E with Macron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter E Macron |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "e" U+0065 Latin Small Letter E "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ē |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ē |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0113 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000113 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0113 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ē" U+0112 Latin Capital Letter E with Macron |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ē" U+0112 Latin Capital Letter E with Macron |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ē" U+0112 Latin Capital Letter E with Macron |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ē" U+0112 Latin Capital Letter E with Macron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |