What is the difference between Overline and Modifier Letter Macron?

Overline is U+203E in the General Punctuation block. Modifier Letter Macron is U+02C9 in the Spacing Modifier Letters block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Overline?

The HTML entity for Overline (U+203E) is ‾.

What is the HTML entity for Modifier Letter Macron?

The HTML entity for Modifier Letter Macron (U+02C9) is ˉ.

Are Overline and Modifier Letter Macron the same Unicode character?

No. Overline is U+203E (decimal 8254) and Modifier Letter Macron is U+02C9 (decimal 713). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Overline and Modifier Letter Macron?

Overline (U+203E) encodes as E2 80 BE in UTF-8. Modifier Letter Macron (U+02C9) encodes as CB 89 in UTF-8.

Overline 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.

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Overline

U+203E

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Modifier Letter Macron

U+02C9

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Property Comparison

Property	Overline	Modifier Letter Macron
Codepoint	`U+203E`	`U+02C9`
Decimal	`8254`	`713`
HTML Entity	`‾`	`ˉ`
HTML Decimal	`‾`	`ˉ`
HTML Hex	`‾`	`ˉ`
UTF-8	`E2 80 BE`	`CB 89`
UTF-16	`20 3E`	`02 C9`
UTF-32	`0000203E`	`000002C9`
CSS Escape	`\203E`	`\2C9`
JS Escape	`\u203E`	`\u02C9`
Python Escape	`\u203E`	`\u02C9`
URL Encoded	`%E2%80%BE`	`%CB%89`
Category	`Other Punctuation (Po)`	`Modifier Letter (Lm)`
Block	`General Punctuation`	`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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