Overline
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
Overline has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ‾
- Unicode
- U+203E
About this symbol
‾, the overline, is a spacing line at the top of the character cell, the opposite of the underscore _. Before Unicode, some national versions of ASCII put it in place of the tilde.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- OVERLINE
- Also called
- Spacing overscore
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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