Ȳ is the Unicode character LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH MACRON, code point U+0232 (decimal 562) in the Latin Extended-B block, added in Unicode 3.0. In HTML write Ȳ, and in UTF-8 it is the 2 bytes C8 B2.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+0232 |
| Decimal | 562 |
| UTF-8 bytes | C8 B2 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 0232 |
| UTF-32 | 00000232 |
| HTML decimal | Ȳ |
| HTML hex | Ȳ |
| CSS | \232 |
| JavaScript | \u0232 |
| JSON | \u0232 |
| Python | \u0232 |
| Python by name | \N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH MACRON} |
| Java, C# | \u0232 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{232} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u0232 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %C8%B2 |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH MACRON |
| Code point | U+0232 (decimal 562) |
| Block | Latin Extended-B (U+0180–U+024F) |
| General category | Lu: Uppercase letter |
| Script | Latin |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 3.0 |
Decomposition
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH MACRON is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+0232. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.
Upper and lower case
- ȳ U+0233 Latin Small Letter Y With Macron — Lowercase
Nearby in Latin Extended-B
- Ȫ U+022A Latin Capital Letter O With Diaeresis And Macron
- ȫ U+022B Latin Small Letter O With Diaeresis And Macron
- Ȭ U+022C Latin Capital Letter O With Tilde And Macron
- ȭ U+022D Latin Small Letter O With Tilde And Macron
- Ȯ U+022E Latin Capital Letter O With Dot Above
- ȯ U+022F Latin Small Letter O With Dot Above
- Ȱ U+0230 Latin Capital Letter O With Dot Above And Macron
- ȱ U+0231 Latin Small Letter O With Dot Above And Macron
- ȳ U+0233 Latin Small Letter Y With Macron
- ȴ U+0234 Latin Small Letter L With Curl
- ȵ U+0235 Latin Small Letter N With Curl
- ȶ U+0236 Latin Small Letter T With Curl
- ȷ U+0237 Latin Small Letter Dotless J
- ȸ U+0238 Latin Small Letter Db Digraph
- ȹ U+0239 Latin Small Letter Qp Digraph
- Ⱥ U+023A Latin Capital Letter A With Stroke
All 208 characters: Latin Extended-B.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for Ȳ?
- Use Ȳ (decimal) or Ȳ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+0232?
- C8 B2 (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %C8%B2.
- How do I write U+0232 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u0232. Python: \u0232.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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