U+0232 "Ȳ" Latin Capital Letter Y with Macron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+0232 "Ȳ" Latin Capital Letter Y with Macron is a typographic character used primarily in Latin orthographies and scholarly transliteration to represent a long "Y" sound, indicated by the macron diacritic mark placed above the letter. It appears in languages such as Old English, Latvian, and some modern Romanization systems for languages like Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, where it distinguishes vowel length or phonetic value. In Unicode, it is part of the Latin Extended-A block, encoded alongside its lowercase counterpart "ȳ" at U+0233, and supports precise textual representation in digital contexts where phonetic or historical accuracy is required.
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Latin Small Letter Y with Macron
General Properties
Code Point
U+0232
Name
Latin Capital Letter Y with Macron
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ȳ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ȳ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xC8 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0232
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000232
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0232
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Latin