U+04EF "ӯ" Cyrillic Small Letter U with Macron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04EF "ӯ" Cyrillic Small Letter U with Macron is a modified Cyrillic letter used primarily in certain non-Slavic languages of Russia and the former Soviet Union, such as Aleut, Dungan, and some dialects of Khanty, where it represents a long or tense vowel sound distinct from a standard short U. Its visual form combines the standard Cyrillic letter "у" with a macron, a horizontal line placed above the character, to indicate the prolonged pronunciation. This character is encoded in Unicode to support accurate text representation and digital processing of these languages, ensuring that orthographic distinctions necessary for meaning and proper reading are preserved in electronic documents and communications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04EF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter U with Macron |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "у" U+0443 Cyrillic Small Letter U "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ӯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ӯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04EF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04ef |
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 | "Ӯ" U+04EE Cyrillic Capital Letter U with Macron |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ӯ" U+04EE Cyrillic Capital Letter U with Macron |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ӯ" U+04EE Cyrillic Capital Letter U with Macron |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ӯ" U+04EE Cyrillic Capital Letter U 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 |