U+FE4A "﹊" Centreline Overline Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE4A "﹊" Centreline Overline is a typographic symbol defined as a small, horizontal line positioned at the x-height or center of the character space, designed to be used for overlining or striking through text in a centered manner, distinct from a full overline or macron. It is part of the CJK Compatibility Forms block and is primarily intended for use in East Asian text processing, where it can serve as a diacritic or annotation mark to indicate emphasis, deletion, or special notation without altering the underlying character's vertical placement.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE4A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Centreline Overline |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Spacing Centerline Overscore |
| Block | CJK Compatibility Forms |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "‾" U+203E Overline |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﹊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﹊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB9 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE4A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE4A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe4a |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "SP" U+0020 Space "̅" U+0305 Combining Overline |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "SP" U+0020 Space "̅" U+0305 Combining Overline |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |