U+01E2 "Ǣ" Latin Capital Letter Ae with Macron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01E2 "Ǣ" Latin Capital Letter Ae with Macron is a precomposed ligature of the letters "A" and "E" combined with a macron, a horizontal line placed above the character to indicate a long vowel sound. This glyph is primarily used in the orthographies of certain languages, such as Old English and some modern Latin-based transcriptions, to represent a specific long vowel pronunciation. As a single encoded character, it allows for consistent digital representation and text processing, particularly in linguistic studies and historical documentation, without requiring separate combining diacritical marks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01E2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Ae with Macron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter A E Macron |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Æ" U+00C6 Latin Capital Letter Ae "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ǣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ǣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01E2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001E2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01e2 |
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 | "ǣ" U+01E3 Latin Small Letter Ae with Macron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ǣ" U+01E3 Latin Small Letter Ae with Macron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ǣ" U+01E3 Latin Small Letter Ae with Macron |
| Case Folding | "ǣ" U+01E3 Latin Small Letter Ae with Macron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ǣ" U+01E3 Latin Small Letter Ae with Macron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ǣ" U+01E3 Latin Small Letter Ae 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 |