U+0232 "Ȳ" Latin Capital Letter Y with Macron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ȳ
U+0232 "Ȳ" Latin Capital Letter Y with Macron is a typographic character used primarily in Latin orthographies and scholarly transliteration to represent a long "Y" sound, indicated by the macron diacritic mark placed above the letter. It appears in languages such as Old English, Latvian, and some modern Romanization systems for languages like Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, where it distinguishes vowel length or phonetic value. In Unicode, it is part of the Latin Extended-A block, encoded alongside its lowercase counterpart "ȳ" at U+0233, and supports precise textual representation in digital contexts where phonetic or historical accuracy is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0232 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Y with Macron |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Y" U+0059 Latin Capital Letter Y "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ȳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ȳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0232 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000232 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0232 |
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 | "ȳ" U+0233 Latin Small Letter Y with Macron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ȳ" U+0233 Latin Small Letter Y with Macron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ȳ" U+0233 Latin Small Letter Y with Macron |
| Case Folding | "ȳ" U+0233 Latin Small Letter Y with Macron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ȳ" U+0233 Latin Small Letter Y with Macron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ȳ" U+0233 Latin Small Letter Y 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 |