U+01E3 "ǣ" Latin Small Letter Ae with Macron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01E3 "ǣ" Latin Small Letter Ae with Macron is a precomposed glyph representing the Latin diphthong "ae" with a macron, or long vowel mark, placed directly above it, and it is primarily used in the transliteration of Old English and some modern linguistic contexts to denote a long "æ" sound. This character allows for the precise orthographic representation of historical texts where vowel length is phonemically significant, distinguishing it from the short vowel "æ" without the macron. It appears in scholarly editions of works like Beowulf and in academic writing on the English language's development, where it helps convey accurate pronunciation and morphological distinctions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01E3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Ae with Macron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter A E Macron |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "æ" U+00E6 Latin Small Letter Ae "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ǣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ǣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01E3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001E3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01e3 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ǣ" U+01E2 Latin Capital Letter Ae with Macron |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ǣ" U+01E2 Latin Capital Letter Ae with Macron |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ǣ" U+01E2 Latin Capital Letter Ae with Macron |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ǣ" U+01E2 Latin Capital Letter Ae 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 |