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Glyph for U+203E
Source: Noto Sans

U+203E Overline

U+203E was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+2000 to U+206F General Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

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 Compat composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+0020 Space, Glyph for U+0305 Combining Overline. 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 1 other glyphs. In text U+203E behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The CLDR project labels this character “overline” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: overline, 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
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
AGL: Latin-5 uni203E
Adobe Glyph List overline
digraph '-

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name OVERLINE
Unicode 1 Name SPACING OVERSCORE
Block General Punctuation
General Category Other Punctuation
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Other Neutral
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+0020 Space Glyph for U+0305 Combining Overline
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+203E Overline
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+203E Overline
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+203E Overline
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+203E Overline
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+203E Overline
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+203E Overline
Case Folding Glyph for U+203E Overline
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+203E Overline
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
Ideographic
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+0020 Space Glyph for U+0305 Combining Overline
NFKC Quick Check No
NFKD Quick Check No
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+203E Overline
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+203E Overline
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R