Ī
U+012A

LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH MACRON

Lu — Uppercase Letter
Latin
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
298

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH MACRON in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 C4 AA 196 170 2
UTF-16 LE 2A 01 42 1 2
UTF-16 BE 01 2A 1 42 2
UTF-32 LE 2A 01 00 00 42 1 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 01 2A 0 0 1 42 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS not supported
EUC-JP 8F AA C5 143 170 197 3
GBK not supported
Big5 not supported

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
Ī
Ī
\12A
\u012A
%C4%AA
\u012a
298

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 2 bytes. The leading 110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 2-byte sequence. Bytes 2+ begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
C4
·
Byte 2
1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
AA
UTF-8: C4 AA · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+012A

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right
Lowercase: U+012B LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH MACRON

Canonical decomposition — this character is equivalent to the sequence below under NFC/NFD normalization.

Nearby Characters in Latin Extended-A