Combining Minus Sign Above vs Combining 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 | Combining Minus Sign Above | Combining Macron |
|---|---|---|
| Codepoint |
U+1AE2
|
U+0304
|
| Decimal |
6882
|
772
|
| HTML Entity |
᫢
|
̄
|
| HTML Decimal |
᫢
|
̄
|
| HTML Hex |
᫢
|
̄
|
| UTF-8 |
E1 AB A2
|
CC 84
|
| UTF-16 |
1A E2
|
03 04
|
| UTF-32 |
00001AE2
|
00000304
|
| CSS Escape |
\1AE2
|
\304
|
| JS Escape |
\u1AE2
|
\u0304
|
| Python Escape |
\u1AE2
|
\u0304
|
| URL Encoded |
%E1%AB%A2
|
%CC%84
|
| Category |
Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)
|
Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)
|
| Block |
Combining Diacritical Marks Extended
|
Combining Diacritical Marks
|
| Script |
Inherited
|
Inherited
|
| Bidi Class |
NSM
|
NSM
|
| Unicode Version |
17.0
|
1.1
|
Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.
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