| Character | ȳ |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Y With Macron |
| Unicode Code Point | U+0233 |
| Decimal Value | 563 |
| Hex Value | 0x0233 |
| Category | Latin Extended-B |
| Windows Alt Code | Not available — use copy/paste |
| Word Alt+X Code | 0233 + Alt+X |
| Mac Shortcut | Not available — use copy/paste |
| HTML Entity | ȳ |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | ȳ / ȳ |
| CSS Content Code | content: "\0233"; |
| JavaScript Unicode Escape | "\u{0233}" |
Latin Small Letter Y With Macron comes from Latin Extended-B, a block largely used by linguists, and by languages such as Vietnamese, several West African languages, and older romanization systems that need letter shapes beyond the standard Latin alphabet.
Unicode block: Latin Extended-B (U+0180–U+024F). Latin Extended-B holds rarer Latin-script letters used in African, Vietnamese, and historical European orthographies, plus phonetic symbols adopted from early Africanist and Americanist linguistic notation.
At Unicode code point U+0233 (decimal 563), Latin Small Letter Y With Macron is the 180th of 208 characters cataloged in this category on How To Type Any Symbol. In terms of typing methods, like most characters outside the 0–255 legacy codepage range, it has no dedicated Alt-code or single-key shortcut on Windows or Mac, so copy-paste is the standard, universal method for typing it. Regardless of platform, clicking the copy button above places the exact character on your clipboard, ready to paste into any application that accepts Unicode text.
💡 Good to know: Not every font ships full glyph coverage for Latin Extended-B — verify rendering before publishing, especially in web fonts.
No alt code available — click the copy button above and paste with Ctrl+V.
No dedicated shortcut — click the copy button above and paste with Cmd+V.
Click the symbol above to copy it, then paste anywhere — works on every device and OS.
Use the entity ȳ in your HTML.