Macron
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0175 on the numeric keypad to insert macron.
- Alt code
- Alt+0175
- HTML entity
- ¯
- Unicode
- U+00AF
About this symbol
¯ is the macron on its own, a short bar placed over a vowel to show it is long, as in Māori and in dictionaries’ pronunciation guides. In maths a bar over a figure can mean an average or a repeating decimal.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- MACRON
- Also called
- Overline, APL overbar
- Type
- Modifier symbol
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- This is a spacing character
- Unlike 203E, adjacent instances of this character do not join
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Windows Extended Codes: 0128 to 0255 chart for related characters.