Macron

What is Macron?


1.

Represented as: ¯

A macron is usually put over a vowel to show that the sound should be longer. Rarely used in English as most English almost never uses accent modifiers like graves, diaereses, and tildes.

Macrons: ¨¡ ¨© ¨± ¨¥ ¨­ ¨µ ȳ

See macron, punctuation

2.

A long bar placed over vowels in words from foreign languages, like Japanese.

I read an old history book and saw a macron over the 'o' in Hokkaido


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