Ȳ (minuscule: ȳ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Y with the addition of a macron (¯).
In modern dictionaries and textbooks for Latin and Old English, ȳ may be used to indicate a long "y" ([yː]). In Latin, this only occurs in loanwords. It is used in Cornish, and was used in Livonian.[1]
Unicode[edit]
Preview | Ȳ | ȳ | ||
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Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH MACRON | LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH MACRON | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 562 | U+0232 | 563 | U+0233 |
UTF-8 | 200 178 | C8 B2 | 200 179 | C8 B3 |
Numeric character reference | Ȳ |
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See also[edit]
- U with macron (Cyrillic) (Ӯ, ӯ) - a similar looking character
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