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Where does the word Macron come from in the alphabet?
Its name derives from Ancient Greek μακρόν ( makrón) “long”, since it was originally used to mark long or heavy syllables in Greco-Roman metrics. It now more often marks a long vowel. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the macron is used to indicate a mid- tone; the sign for a long vowel is instead a modified triangular colon ⟨ ː ⟩.
How are macrons used in the Unicode Standard?
The Unicode Standard encodes combining and precomposed macron characters: Description Macrons Macrons Macrons Macrons Character Unicode HTML Character Unicode Macron above Combining Spacing Spacing Spacing Spacing Macron above ◌̄ single U+0304 ̄ ¯ mark
How are macrons used in the Syriac language?
The Syriac language uses macrons to indicate long vowels in its romanized transliteration: ā for /aː/, ē for /eː/, ū for /uː/ and ō for /ɔː/. Latvian. ā, ē, ī, ū are separate letters but are given the same position in collation as a, e, i, u respectively. Ō was also used in Latvian, but it was discarded as of 1946. Some usage remains in Latgalian.
Which is the alternative to the Macron in Mandarin?
Like Mandarin, the alternative to the macron is the number 1 after the syllable (for example, tā = ta1). In Pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization of Hokkien, macrons over a, e, i, m, n, o, o͘ , u, (ā, ē, ī, m̄, n̄, ō, ō͘ , ū) indicate the mid level tone (“light departing” or 7th tone) of Hokkien.
How to add a macron in Microsoft Word?
To add a macron, hit the ` key then type the vowel you need. Adding shift will put a tohutō on your capital vowel. Writing in te reo Māori in Microsoft Word
How do you type with a macron keyboard?
To type with a macron all you need to do is hold down the Alt/Option key at the same time as hitting the vowel. Use shift at the same time to get an uppercase vowel with a tohutō.
How to combine acute Macron and grave Macron?
1 U+1DC4 ◌᷄ COMBINING MACRON-ACUTE (HTML ᷄) 2 U+1DC5 ◌᷅ COMBINING GRAVE-MACRON (HTML ᷅) 3 U+1DC6 ◌᷆ COMBINING MACRON-GRAVE (HTML ᷆) 4 U+1DC7 ◌᷇ COMBINING ACUTE-MACRON (HTML ᷇)