Unicode Character "¯" U+00AF Macron
Unicode Version 15.1
¯
Summary
The unicode character "¯" at code point U+00AF is Macron. It is a character in the Latin-1 Supplement block and is part of the Common script. The character is a modifier symbol. The UTF-8 encoding of "¯" is 0xC2 0xAF and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x00AF.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00AF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Macron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Spacing Macron |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Modifier Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "SP" U+0020 Space "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Entity | ¯ ¯ |
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ¯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ¯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00AF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00af |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Expands On NFKC | Yes |
| Expands On NKFD | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Narrow |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "SP" U+0020 Space "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "SP" U+0020 Space "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Diacritic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |