U+00AF "¯" Macron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+00AF "¯" Macron is a spacing diacritical mark that appears as a horizontal line positioned above a letter, historically used to indicate a long vowel sound in Latin and other languages, though in modern digital contexts it is often employed as an overline or for decorative text, such as creating strike-through effects or framing ASCII art, and it should not be confused with the similar looking combining macron (U+0304), as this version occupies its own character space and does not automatically attach to a preceding letter.
General Properties
Code Point
U+00AF
Name
Macron
Unicode 1.0 Name
Spacing Macron
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
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
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Common