U+1E7A "Ṻ" Latin Capital Letter U with Macron and Diaeresis Unicode Character
U+1E7A "Ṻ" Latin Capital Letter U with Macron and Diaeresis is a composite glyph used in the written form of certain languages where both a macron (a horizontal line above the letter indicating a long vowel) and a diaeresis (two dots, used to show that the vowel is pronounced separately from a preceding vowel, or to denote a different vowel quality) are applied to the capital letter U. This character is primarily utilized in linguistic or academic transcriptions, particularly for transliterating languages such as Sanskrit or other ancient or modern texts that require precise vowel length and pronunciation markers. It is part of the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode, serving to represent a specific phonetic or orthographic distinction that neither a simple U, U with macron, nor U with diaeresis alone can convey.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E7A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter U with Macron and Diaeresis |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ū" U+016A Latin Capital Letter U with Macron "̈" U+0308 Combining Diaeresis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ṻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ṻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB9 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E7A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E7A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e7a |
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 | "ṻ" U+1E7B Latin Small Letter U with Macron and Diaeresis |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ṻ" U+1E7B Latin Small Letter U with Macron and Diaeresis |
| Simple Case Folding | "ṻ" U+1E7B Latin Small Letter U with Macron and Diaeresis |
| Case Folding | "ṻ" U+1E7B Latin Small Letter U with Macron and Diaeresis |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ṻ" U+1E7B Latin Small Letter U with Macron and Diaeresis |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ṻ" U+1E7B Latin Small Letter U with Macron and Diaeresis |
| 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 |