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U+00AF · MACRON

Macron

  • CodepointU+00AF
  • NameMACRON
  • Decimal175
  • BlockLatin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySk — Modifier Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthNa — Narrow
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+00AF (¯) is MACRON, a modifier symbol in the Latin-1 Supplement block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a compatibility variant of U+0020 + U+0304 ◌̄ (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0020 + U+0304 ◌̄. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type ¯

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C2 AF2 bytes
UTF-1600AF1 code unit
UTF-32000000AF4 bytes
HTML named&macr;named character reference
HTML named&strns;named character reference
HTML decimal&#175;
HTML hex&#xAF;
CSS\AFin content: "…"
JavaScript\u00AF
JSON\u00AF
Python\u00AF
Python\N{MACRON}by name
Java / C#\u00AF
C / C++\u00AFuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{AF}
Go\u00AF
Ruby\u00AF
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(175)
URL-encoded%C2%AFpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0020 + U+0304 ◌̄
NFKDU+0020 + U+0304 ◌̄
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+02C9ˉModifier Letter Macron U+203E‾Overline U+2594▔Upper One Eighth Block U+FFE3￣Fullwidth Macron U+FE49﹉Dashed Overline U+FE4A﹊Centreline Overline U+FE4B﹋Wavy Overline U+FE4C﹌Double Wavy Overline
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Characters built on ¯

U+FFE3￣Fullwidth Macron
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Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement

All in block →
U+00A9©Copyright Sign U+00AAªFeminine Ordinal Indicator U+00AB«Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark U+00AC¬Not Sign U+00ADSHYSoft Hyphen U+00AE®Registered Sign U+00B0°Degree Sign U+00B1±Plus-Minus Sign U+00B2²Superscript Two U+00B3³Superscript Three U+00B4´Acute Accent U+00B5µMicro Sign