What is the difference between Combining Minus Sign Below and Combining Macron Below?

Combining Minus Sign Below is U+0320 in the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Combining Macron Below is U+0331 in the Combining Diacritical Marks block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Combining Minus Sign Below?

The HTML entity for Combining Minus Sign Below (U+0320) is ̠.

What is the HTML entity for Combining Macron Below?

The HTML entity for Combining Macron Below (U+0331) is ̱.

Are Combining Minus Sign Below and Combining Macron Below the same Unicode character?

No. Combining Minus Sign Below is U+0320 (decimal 800) and Combining Macron Below is U+0331 (decimal 817). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Combining Minus Sign Below and Combining Macron Below?

Combining Minus Sign Below (U+0320) encodes as CC A0 in UTF-8. Combining Macron Below (U+0331) encodes as CC B1 in UTF-8.

Combining Minus Sign Below vs Combining Macron Below

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.

Combining Minus Sign Below

U+0320

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Combining Macron Below

U+0331

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Property Comparison

Property	Combining Minus Sign Below	Combining Macron Below
Codepoint	`U+0320`	`U+0331`
Decimal	`800`	`817`
HTML Entity	`̠`	`̱`
HTML Decimal	`̠`	`̱`
HTML Hex	`̠`	`̱`
UTF-8	`CC A0`	`CC B1`
UTF-16	`03 20`	`03 31`
UTF-32	`00000320`	`00000331`
CSS Escape	`\320`	`\331`
JS Escape	`\u0320`	`\u0331`
Python Escape	`\u0320`	`\u0331`
URL Encoded	`%CC%A0`	`%CC%B1`
Category	`Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)`	`Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)`
Block	`Combining Diacritical Marks`	`Combining Diacritical Marks`
Script	`Inherited`	`Inherited`
Bidi Class	`NSM`	`NSM`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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