Combining Overline Non-spacing Overscore

U+0305

Combining Overline Non-spacing Overscore is the Unicode character ̅ at codepoint U+0305 in the Combining Diacritical Marks block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.

Technical Reference

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How to Use Combining Overline Non-spacing Overscore

To use the Combining Overline Non-spacing Overscore symbol (̅) in HTML, insert the entity ̅ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ̅ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\305';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u0305' evaluates to ̅. In Python source, write '\u0305'.

The character encodes to CC 85 as UTF-8 bytes and 0305 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 773.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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Last updated on 5 May 2026