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Translingual
Description
A horizontal line to be placed above other characters. Also known as an upperscore.
Diacritical mark
¯
- (linguistics) Used to indicate mid tone.
- See ‾ for the overline, which is used in mathematics.
Usage notes
In English, this is called macron.
Japanese
Diacritical mark
¯
Usage notes
In a number of romanization systems of Japanese, particularly Hepburn, the macron indicates that a vowel is a long vowel.
Other romanization systems, particularly Kunrei-shiki, use the circumflex (^) for that purpose.
Latin
Diacritical mark
¯
Latvian
Diacritical mark
¯
Usage notes
- Used to mark long vowels: ā = [aː], ē = [ɛː] or [æː], ī = [iː], ū = [uː].
- For a short while (1908-1919), it was also used with the letter o (ō) to mark long [oː] in words of foreign origin, but this usage has since then been abandoned.
- Letters with macrons are considered as separate letters with different names, and listed in the alphabet after the same letters without macron (i.e., ā after a, ē after e, ī after i, and ū after u). In actual practice, however, letters with and without macrons are treated as the same letter in alphabetized lists (e.g., in dictionaries), unlike letters with cedillas (ģ, ķ, ļ, ņ) or háčeks (č, š, ž), which are kept separate in alphabetized lists.
Mandarin
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