About Modifier Letter Macron
Modifier Letter Macron is the Unicode character ˉ at codepoint U+02C9 in the Spacing Modifier Letters block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Modifier Letter Macron
To use the Modifier Letter Macron symbol (ˉ) in HTML, insert the
entity ˉ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ˉ works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2C9';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u02C9' evaluates to ˉ. In Python source, write '\u02C9'.
The character encodes to CB 89 as UTF-8 bytes and 02C9 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 713.
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.