What ū means
It marks vowel length or forms part of a letter's spelling.
Latin lessons use the u with a macron to show a long vowel. In Latvian and Lithuanian, ū belongs in the word's spelling.
A 1908 Latvian spelling proposal marked long vowels with a stroke. Schools taught it from 1909; a 1919 instruction accepted most of the system.
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Who writes ū
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Don't confuse it with
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ŪLatin Capital Letter U With Macron
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ũLatin Small Letter U With Tilde
ŬLatin Capital Letter U With Breve
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BLatin Capital Letter B
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DLatin Capital Letter D
ELatin Capital Letter EHow to type or find ū
- Search it as
- long u · u with a macron · umacron
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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macOS
HTML
ūCSS
\016BHow to type ū
Use a layout that supports macron vowels; available keys vary.
Combining form
Type u followed by combining macron U0304; Unicode treats the sequence as equivalent to ū.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ū
HTML hex
ū
CSS content
content: "\016B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%C5%AB
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.