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Technical information
| Symbol | ¯ | |
| Name | Macron | |
| Unicode number | U+00AF | |
| Category | Latin-1 Supplement2. Latin-1 punctuation and symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character ¯, or U+00AF, is known as the "Macron". It is part of the "Latin-1 Supplement" block, which includes various characters used in Western European languages. This character falls under the "Mark, Spacing Combining" category. Visually, it appears as a straight horizontal line and is usually placed above a vowel. The Macron is a diacritic mark used in various written languages, including Latin, Greek, and Baltic languages, among others. It indicates that the vowel over which it is placed is long, or the accent is placed on that syllable. The specific usage of the Macron can depend on the particular conventions of a language, but it generally serves as an indicator of vowel length or stress. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ¯ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ¯ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ¯ | |
| URL Escape Code | %C2%AF | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xC2 0xAF | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 1100001010101111 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x00AF | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000000AF |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u00AF" | |
| CSS Code | \00AF | |
| JavaScript | "\u00AF" | |
| Perl | \x{00AF} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u00AF" | |
| Python 3 | \u00AF | |
| Ruby | \u{00AF} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ¯ in sentence and in bold like this ¯ and in italic like this ¯.
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Font size:
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12px
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20px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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select
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
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span {
content: "\00AF";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana