U+016A "Ū" Latin Capital Letter U with Macron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+016A "Ū" Latin Capital Letter U with Macron is a grapheme that represents the letter U with a macron, a horizontal diacritical mark placed above it, used to indicate a long vowel sound in languages such as Latvian, Māori, and Hawaiian. It is part of the Latin Extended-A block and is commonly employed in transliterations of languages like Japanese romanization, where it marks a prolonged "u" sound, as well as in academic writing for ancient languages like Latin to denote vowel length. This character is distinct from a plain U and is essential for proper spelling and pronunciation in over twenty writing systems worldwide, ensuring accurate representation of phonetic distinctions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+016A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter U with Macron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter U Macron |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "U" U+0055 Latin Capital Letter U "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ū |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ū |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC5 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x016A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000016A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u016a |
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 | "ū" U+016B Latin Small Letter U with Macron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ū" U+016B Latin Small Letter U with Macron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ū" U+016B Latin Small Letter U with Macron |
| Case Folding | "ū" U+016B Latin Small Letter U with Macron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ū" U+016B Latin Small Letter U with Macron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ū" U+016B Latin Small Letter U 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 |