U+016B "ū" Latin Small Letter U with Macron Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

ū
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+016B "ū" Latin Small Letter U with Macron is a standardized typographic glyph representing a 'u' with a horizontal line, or macron, placed above it, which is used in various languages to denote a long vowel sound, such as in Latvian, Māori, and romanized Japanese, where it distinguishes meaning and pronunciation from its short counterpart, such as in the Māori word "rūma" meaning room.

General Properties

Code Point
U+016B
Name
Latin Small Letter U with Macron
Unicode 1.0 Name
Latin Small Letter U Macron

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ū
HTML Hex Encoding
ū
UTF-8 Encoding
0xC5 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding
0x016B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000016B
C/C++/Java Escape
\u016b