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U+0305 COMBINING MARK

COMBINING OVERLINE

Preview uses dotted circle base (◌) for visibility. Clipboard copy copies only the raw diacritic mark.

Quick Facts

Unicode Name COMBINING OVERLINE
Code Point U+0305
Decimal Value 773
General Category Nonspacing Mark (Mn) →
Unicode Block Combining Diacritical Marks →
Script Inherited →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 2 bytes CC 85
UTF-16 Code Unit 0305
UTF-32 4 bytes 00000305
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 03 05 LE: 05 03
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 03 05 LE: 05 03 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ̅
HTML Hexadecimal ̅
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \000305
JavaScript (ES6) \u0305
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u0305
JSON Escape \u0305
Python \u0305
PHP "\u{305}"
Java "\u0305"
C / C++ "\u0305"
Rust '\u{305}'
URL Percent-Encoded %CC%85

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 230Above (Acute, Grave, Tilde, etc.)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class NSMNonspacing Mark
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+0305 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
◌̅
Context: A ◌̅ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
◌̅
Context: A ◌̅ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
◌̅
Context: A ◌̅ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
◌̅
Context: A ◌̅ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name COMBINING OVERLINE

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+0305

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