U+1E16 "Ḗ" Latin Capital Letter E with Macron and Acute Unicode Character
U+1E16 "Ḗ" Latin Capital Letter E with Macron and Acute is a precomposed letter used primarily in specialized orthographies and academic transliteration systems, particularly for languages such as Lithuanian where it represents a long stressed E sound. It combines a base Latin capital letter E with both a macron (a horizontal line above the vowel indicating length) and an acute accent (a diagonal mark denoting stress or a specific tonal quality). This character is distinct from combining sequences of the letter E followed by separate combining marks, as it exists as a single encoded entity in the Unicode standard for compatibility and ease of use in digital text. Its lowercase counterpart is U+1E17 "ḗ", and it is typically found in historical or linguistic contexts where precise phonetic or diacritic representation is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E16 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter E with Macron and Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ē" U+0112 Latin Capital Letter E with Macron "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E16 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e16 |
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 | "ḗ" U+1E17 Latin Small Letter E with Macron and Acute |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḗ" U+1E17 Latin Small Letter E with Macron and Acute |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḗ" U+1E17 Latin Small Letter E with Macron and Acute |
| Case Folding | "ḗ" U+1E17 Latin Small Letter E with Macron and Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḗ" U+1E17 Latin Small Letter E with Macron and Acute |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḗ" U+1E17 Latin Small Letter E with Macron and Acute |
| 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 |