Ȳ

Ȳ (minuscule: ȳ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Y with the addition of a macron (¯).

Latin Y with 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

Character information

Preview	Ȳ		ȳ
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	Ȳ	ȳ	ȳ

See also

• U with macron (Cyrillic) (Ӯ, ӯ) - a similar looking character