This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as spacing overscore.
The glyph is a compatibility composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+0020Space, Glyph for U+0305Combining Overline. 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. The word that U+203E forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “overline” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: overstrike, vinculum.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
An overline, overscore, or overbar, is a typographical feature of a horizontal line drawn immediately above the text. In old mathematical notation, an overline was called a vinculum, a notation for grouping symbols which is expressed in modern notation by parentheses, though it persists for symbols under a radical sign. The original use in Ancient Greek was to indicate compositions of Greek letters as Greek numerals. In Latin, it indicates Roman numerals multiplied by a thousand and it forms medieval abbreviations (sigla). Marking one or more words with a continuous line above the characters is sometimes called overstriking, though overstriking generally refers to printing one character on top of an already-printed character.
An overline, that is, a single line above a chunk of text, should not be confused with the macron, a diacritical mark placed above (or sometimes below) individual letters. The macron is narrower than the character box.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
8254
UTF-8
E2 80 BE
UTF-16
20 3E
UTF-32
00 00 20 3E
URL-Quoted
%E2%80%BE
HTML hex reference
‾
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
‾
HTML named entity
‾
HTML named entity
‾
alias
spacing overscore
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes)
A1 C2
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)
A1 C2
Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes)
BC
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes)
A1 C2
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes)
7E
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 36 A8 32
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes)
1B 28 4A 7E 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes)
1B 28 4A 7E 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)
1B 28 4A 7E 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes)
1B 28 4A 7E 1B 28 42
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes)
7E
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
7E
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
7E
Encoding: CP1122 (hex bytes)
BC
Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes)
BC
Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes)
A1
Encoding: CP833 (hex bytes)
A0
AGL: Latin-5
uni203E
Adobe Glyph List
overline
digraph
'-
RFC 5137
\u'203E'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u203E
C and C++
\u203E
C#
\u203E
CSS
\00203E
Excel
=UNICHAR(8254)
Go
\u203E
JavaScript
\u203E
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{203e}
JSON
\u203E
Java
\u203E
Lua
\u{203E}
Matlab
char(8254)
Perl
"\x{203E}"
PHP
\u{203e}
PostgreSQL
U&'\203E'
PowerShell
`u{203E}
Python
\u203E
Ruby
\u{203e}
Rust
\u{203e}
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