Latin Capital Letter E with Macron

Latin Capital Letter E with Macron at U+0112 is an uppercase Latin E marked with a horizontal bar to show a long vowel or a language-specific letter value. It belongs to the Latin Extended-A block and is used in alphabets, transliteration systems, and scholarly notation where plain E is not precise enough. Its most visible everyday use is in Latvian, where Ē is a separate letter representing a long close-mid front vowel, paired with lowercase ē. It appears in ordinary words and names, such as Ēriks, and affects spelling, pronunciation, and dictionary ordering. In Māori and many other Polynesian-language orthographies, Ē marks a long e vowel in uppercase text, names, headings, and educational materials; it may appear in words such as Ētahi when capitalization calls for it. It is also common in romanized Japanese, Sanskrit, and other transliteration schemes, where Ē indicates a long e sound and helps distinguish vowel length in dictionaries, textbooks, and academic writing. The letter can be mistaken for a styled E with a decorative overline, but in text it is a distinct character with linguistic meaning rather than formatting.