U+016B "ū" Latin Small Letter U with Macron Unicode Character

U+016B "ū" Latin Small Letter U with Macron is a standardized typographic glyph representing a 'u' with a horizontal line, or macron, placed above it, which is used in various languages to denote a long vowel sound, such as in Latvian, Māori, and romanized Japanese, where it distinguishes meaning and pronunciation from its short counterpart, such as in the Māori word "rūma" meaning room.

General Properties

Code Point	U+016B
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter U with Macron
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter U Macron
Block	Latin Extended-A
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"u" U+0075 Latin Small Letter U "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ū
HTML Hex Encoding	ū
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC5 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x016B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000016B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u016b

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	"Ū" U+016A Latin Capital Letter U with Macron
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ū" U+016A Latin Capital Letter U with Macron
Uppercase Code Point	"Ū" U+016A Latin Capital Letter U with Macron
Titlecase Code Point	"Ū" U+016A Latin Capital Letter U 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