U+0233 "ȳ" Latin Small Letter Y with Macron Unicode Character
U+0233 "ȳ" Latin Small Letter Y with Macron is a precomposed letter in the Latin script that represents the letter "y" with a macron, a horizontal line placed above the character to indicate a long vowel sound. This character is primarily used in linguistic contexts, such as the transliteration of ancient languages like Old English or Latin, where it denotes a lengthened /yː/ phoneme, as well as in some modern orthographies for languages like Māori or certain academic notations. It is also employed in dictionaries and educational materials to specify pronunciation, distinguishing it from the short vowel counterpart. As part of the Latin Extended-A block, this glyph ensures consistent text processing for specialized writing systems and scholarly transcription.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0233 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Y with Macron |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "y" U+0079 Latin Small Letter Y "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ȳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ȳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0233 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000233 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0233 |
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 | "Ȳ" U+0232 Latin Capital Letter Y with Macron |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ȳ" U+0232 Latin Capital Letter Y with Macron |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ȳ" U+0232 Latin Capital Letter Y with Macron |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ȳ" U+0232 Latin Capital Letter Y 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 |