Macron

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Macron
Diacritics in Latin & Greek
	accent
	acute( ´ )
	double acute( ˝ )
	grave( ` )
	double grave( ̏ )
	circumflex( ˆ )
	caron, háček( ˇ )
	breve( ˘ )
	inverted breve( ̑ )
	cedilla( ¸ )
	diaeresis, umlaut( ¨ )
	dot( · )
	palatal hook( ̡ )
	retroflex hook( ̢ )
	hook above, dấu hỏi( ̉ )
	horn( ̛ )
	iota subscript( ͅ )
	macron( ˉ )
	ogonek, nosinė( ˛ )
	perispomene( ͂ )
	overring( ˚ )
	underring( ˳ )
	rough breathing( ῾ )
	smooth breathing( ᾿ )
Marks sometimes used as diacritics
	apostrophe( ’ )
	bar( ◌̸ )
	colon( : )
	comma( , )
	period( . )
	hyphen( ˗ )
	prime( ′ )
	tilde( ~ )
Diacritical marks in other scripts
	Arabic diacritics
	Early Cyrillic diacritics
	kamora( ҄ )
	pokrytie( ҇ )
	titlo( ҃ )
	Gurmukhī diacritics
	Hebrew diacritics
	Indic diacritics
	anusvara( ं ং ം )
	chandrabindu( ँ ఁ )
	nukta( ़ )
	virama( ् ് ్ ් ್ )
	visarga( ः ঃ )
	IPA diacritics
	Japanese diacritics
	dakuten( ﾞ )
	handakuten( ﾟ )
	Khmer diacritics
	Syriac diacritics
	Thai diacritics
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	Punctuation marks
	Logic symbols
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A macron ( ¯ ), from the Greek μακρόν (makrón), meaning "long", is a diacritic mark commonly placed above a single character or symbol (particularly vowels).^[1]

Usage

In the romanization of Japanese, a letter with macron represents a long vowel.^[2]

For example, in the Hepburn romanization system
- kōtsū (交通) means "traffic"
- kotsu (骨) means "bone" or "knack"

In the written Hawaiian language, the kahakō is shown by a macron.^[3]

In mathematics, a macron (or overline) is often placed above a symbol to refer to a complex conjugate,^[4] a sample mean and a logical negation.^[5]

Related pages

References

↑ Greve, Susan M. (2007). Phonics for Dummies, p. 114.
↑ Nakao, Seigo. (1997). Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary, p. x.
↑ United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, Twenty-third Session Vienna, "Working Paper No. 82, "US Board on Geographic Names: Collection and Dissemination of Indigenous Names," p. 3; excerpt, "An example of this has been the addition of the glottal stop (okina) and macron (kahako) to placenames of Hawaiian origin, which prior to 1995 had always been omitted. The BGN (Board on Geographic Names) staff, under the direction and guidance of the Hawaii State Geographic Names Authority, has been restoring systemically these marks to each Hawaiian name listed in GNIS (Geographic Names Information System)"; retrieved 2012-6-16.
↑ "Comprehensive List of Algebra Symbols". Math Vault. 2020-03-25. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
↑ Weisstein, Eric W. "Macron". mathworld.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2020-08-24.

[1] Greve, Susan M. (2007). Phonics for Dummies, p. 114.

[2] Nakao, Seigo. (1997). Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary, p. x.

[3] United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, Twenty-third Session Vienna, "Working Paper No. 82, "US Board on Geographic Names: Collection and Dissemination of Indigenous Names," p. 3; excerpt, "An example of this has been the addition of the glottal stop (okina) and macron (kahako) to placenames of Hawaiian origin, which prior to 1995 had always been omitted. The BGN (Board on Geographic Names) staff, under the direction and guidance of the Hawaii State Geographic Names Authority, has been restoring systemically these marks to each Hawaiian name listed in GNIS (Geographic Names Information System)"; retrieved 2012-6-16.

[4] "Comprehensive List of Algebra Symbols". Math Vault. 2020-03-25. Retrieved 2020-08-24.

[5] Weisstein, Eric W. "Macron". mathworld.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2020-08-24.

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