U+FE25 "︥" Combining Macron Right Half Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE25 "︥" Combining Macron Right Half is a diacritical mark used in text rendering to modify a preceding base character by attaching only the right-hand half of a macron, or long vowel mark, above it. It belongs to the Combining Half Marks block, which provides segmented pieces of common accents for precise typographic positioning, particularly in applications where a full macron might be split across multiple characters for alignment or spacing reasons. This character is typically invisible on its own and combines with the adjacent base letter to indicate a partial or extended vowel length, often in specialized phonetic or linguistic transcriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE25 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Macron Right Half |
| Block | Combining Half Marks |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ︥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ︥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB8 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE25 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE25 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe25 |