U+04E2 "Ӣ" Cyrillic Capital Letter I with Macron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ӣ
U+04E2 "Ӣ" Cyrillic Capital Letter I with Macron is a grapheme used primarily in the Cyrillic orthographies of certain minority languages, such as Chuvash and Yakut, where it represents a long or tense variant of the vowel sound typically denoted by the letter И (i). This character is formed by combining the standard Cyrillic capital letter I with a macron diacritic placed above it, which indicates a lengthened pronunciation. Encoded in the Unicode standard for use in digital text, it is part of the Cyrillic Extended-B block and facilitates accurate representation of phonetic distinctions in these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04E2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter I with Macron |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "И" U+0418 Cyrillic Capital Letter I "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ӣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ӣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04E2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004E2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04e2 |
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 | "ӣ" U+04E3 Cyrillic Small Letter I with Macron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ӣ" U+04E3 Cyrillic Small Letter I with Macron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ӣ" U+04E3 Cyrillic Small Letter I with Macron |
| Case Folding | "ӣ" U+04E3 Cyrillic Small Letter I with Macron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ӣ" U+04E3 Cyrillic Small Letter I with Macron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ӣ" U+04E3 Cyrillic Small Letter I with Macron |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| 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 |