U+04E3 "ӣ" Cyrillic Small Letter I with Macron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04E3 "ӣ" Cyrillic Small Letter I with Macron is a modified Cyrillic letter used primarily in the transcription and orthography of certain non-Slavic languages within the former Soviet Union, such as Chuvash and Mari. It represents the Cyrillic base letter "и" (i) combined with a macron diacritic, which indicates a long vowel sound in these languages. This character is distinct from its uppercase counterpart U+04E2 and is encoded in the Unicode Cyrillic block to support phonetic specificity and linguistic accuracy in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04E3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter I with Macron |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "и" U+0438 Cyrillic Small Letter I "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ӣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ӣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04E3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004E3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04e3 |
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 | "Ӣ" U+04E2 Cyrillic Capital Letter I with Macron |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ӣ" U+04E2 Cyrillic Capital Letter I with Macron |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ӣ" U+04E2 Cyrillic Capital Letter I with Macron |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ӣ" U+04E2 Cyrillic Capital Letter I with Macron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |