Macron vs Modifier Letter Macron
Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.
Property Comparison
| Property | Macron | Modifier Letter Macron |
|---|---|---|
| Codepoint |
U+00AF
|
U+02C9
|
| Decimal |
175
|
713
|
| HTML Entity |
¯
|
ˉ
|
| HTML Decimal |
¯
|
ˉ
|
| HTML Hex |
¯
|
ˉ
|
| UTF-8 |
C2 AF
|
CB 89
|
| UTF-16 |
00 AF
|
02 C9
|
| UTF-32 |
000000AF
|
000002C9
|
| CSS Escape |
\AF
|
\2C9
|
| JS Escape |
\u00AF
|
\u02C9
|
| Python Escape |
\u00AF
|
\u02C9
|
| URL Encoded |
%C2%AF
|
%CB%89
|
| Category |
Modifier Symbol (Sk)
|
Modifier Letter (Lm)
|
| Block |
Latin-1 Supplement
|
Spacing Modifier Letters
|
| Script |
Common
|
Common
|
| Bidi Class |
ON
|
ON
|
| Unicode Version |
1.1
|
1.1
|
Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.
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