U+035E "͞" Combining Double Macron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
͞
U+035E "͞" Combining Double Macron is a diacritical mark used in written language to be placed over a base letter, most commonly in linguistic and scholarly transcriptions to indicate a long vowel sound or a double-length pronunciation, such as in the Latin transcription of Ancient Greek where it marks length on the letter eta or omega. It appears as a horizontal line spanning the width of the character it modifies, and it is one of several combining macron forms in Unicode that allow for precise orthographic representation in digital text without altering the underlying base character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+035E |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Combining Double Macron |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Double Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ͞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ͞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCD 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x035E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000035E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u035e |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Joining Type | Transparent |
| Line Break | Non-breaking (“Glue”) |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Script | Inherited |
| Script Extensions | Caucasian Albanian Latin Todhri |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Indic Conjunct Break | Extend |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Diacritic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Extend | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Extend |
| Word Break | Extend |
| Sentence Break | Extend |