U+02C9 Modifier Letter Macron
U+02C9 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Spacing Modifier Letters in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Modifier Letter and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 10 other glyphs. In text U+02C9 behaves as Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A macron () is a diacritical mark: it is a straight bar (¯) placed above a letter, usually a vowel. Its name derives from Ancient Greek μακρόν (makrón) "long", since it was originally used to mark long or heavy syllables in Greco-Roman metrics. It now more often marks a long vowel. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the macron is used to indicate a mid-tone; the sign for a long vowel is instead a modified triangular colon ⟨ː⟩.
The opposite is the breve ⟨˘⟩, which marks a short or light syllable or a short vowel.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 713 |
| UTF-8 | CB 89 |
| UTF-16 | 02 C9 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 02 C9 |
| URL-Quoted | %CB%89 |
| HTML hex reference | ˉ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ◌ˉ |
| AGL: Latin-2 | uni02C9 |
| AGL: Latin-3 | uni02C9 |
| AGL: Latin-4 | uni02C9 |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni02C9 |
| Adobe Glyph List | firsttonechinese |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| MODIFIER LETTER MACRON | |
| — | |
| Spacing Modifier Letters | |
| Modifier Letter | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Modifier Letter Macron | |
| ✘ | |
| Modifier Letter Macron | |
| Modifier Letter Macron | |
| ✘ | |
| Modifier Letter Macron | |
| Modifier Letter Macron | |
| Modifier Letter Macron | |
| Modifier Letter Macron | |
| Modifier Letter Macron | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Modifier Letter Macron | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Modifier Letter Macron | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Modifier Letter Macron | |
| None | |
| Ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Modifier Letter Macron | |
| R |