Unicode Character "¯" (U+00AF)

The character ¯ (Macron) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+00AF. It is encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ¯.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Macron
Unicode Codepoint U+00AF
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Modifier Symbol
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+00AF Conversion

HTML (decimal) ¯
HTML (hex) ¯
HTML (named) ¯
URL Escape Code %C2%AF
CSS \0000AF
JavaScript, JSON \u00AF
C, C++, Java \u00AF
Python \u00AF
Rust \u{00AF}
Ruby \u00AF

How to type "¯"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 0 A F. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 0 A F. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ¯
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ¯
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ¯
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0xAF
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00AF
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000AF

Characters based on "¯" (U+00AF)

References