U+02C9 Modifier Letter Macron
U+02C9 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 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. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+02C9 forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with 10 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A macron ( MAK-ron, MAY-) 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' because 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 | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Modifier Letter Macron | |
| Yes | |
| Modifier Letter Macron | |
| 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 |