U+1E17 "ḗ" Latin Small Letter E with Macron and Acute Unicode Character
U+1E17 "ḗ" Latin Small Letter E with Macron and Acute is a precomposed glyph used primarily in Latin script orthographies for the transcription of certain languages, such as Lithuanian and Ancient Greek, where it denotes a long vowel sound (indicated by the macron) that also bears a high or rising tone (indicated by the acute accent). This combining of both a macron and an acute diacritic above the base letter e allows for precise phonetic representation without the need for separate combining characters, ensuring consistent display and text processing in digital environments. The character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is encoded for use in scholarly works, linguistic texts, and any context where accurate diacritical marking of vowels is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E17 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter E with Macron and Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ē" U+0113 Latin Small Letter E with Macron "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ḗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ḗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E17 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e17 |
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 | "Ḗ" U+1E16 Latin Capital Letter E with Macron and Acute |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ḗ" U+1E16 Latin Capital Letter E with Macron and Acute |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ḗ" U+1E16 Latin Capital Letter E with Macron and Acute |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ḗ" U+1E16 Latin Capital Letter E with Macron and Acute |
| 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 |