Unicode character equivalent to the underscore on top

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Is there a character equivalent to the underscore " _ " which occupies the upper position? Dash " - " will not do. If it were me, I would call it upper-score. But I do not see this anywhere.

score 23 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 14 '13 at 04:07

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What you seek is generally known as a "macron", "overline", "overscore", or "overbar". It exists at several Unicode code points; which one you want depends on whether you want a macron or an overline (the former being shorter), and whether or not you want a combining character.

From Wikipedia, an overline may be found at U+203E (spacing) or U+0305 (combining), and a macron at U+00AF or U+02C9 (spacing, and apparently identical in appearance), or U+0304 (combining).

answered Nov 14 '13 at 04:07

Aaron Miller

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U+0304 isexactly what i want. Thank you! – j0h Nov 14 '13 at 04:12
@j0h Glad to be of help! – Aaron Miller Nov 14 '13 at 04:17
Useful to combine _ with ‾ to make annotations like ̅_|→. On Linux, this can be done by pressing Ctrl+Shift+U, followed by the 4 Unicode characters, followed by the space or enter key and eventually followed by the character you want to combine (https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/tips-specialchars.html.en#ctrlshiftu). It worked in software like Geany but may not work in all software. – baptx Dec 23 '20 at 12:50
Update: the character you want to combine should be preceding the combining character instead of following it, so it becomes _̅|→ (it will not be displayed correctly for all fonts: https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/284076/hide-dotted-circle-when-using-a-combining-character/). – baptx Dec 24 '20 at 15:07

score 14 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 14 '13 at 06:45

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You could try a web service to look up the unicode character you want by drawing.

Unicode character recognition

Some results:

Horizontal scan line-3: ⎻
Unicode hexadecimal: 0x23bb

Combining double macron: ͞
Unicode hexadecimal: 0x35e

Upper one eighth block: ▔
Unicode hexadecimal: 0x2594

Combining overline: ̅
Unicode hexadecimal: 0x305

answered Nov 14 '13 at 06:45

Ivan Chau

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If you know the symbol name, search it on amp-what Unicode characters & entities. Example: Overline symbol – Ivan Chau Feb 19 '14 at 06:52

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 24 '21 at 14:16

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How to do an overline?

... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ... I don't know.

Joke aside, here is a short way to generate them in code if you need them (you can adapt to any language, here in Python):

print(chr(8254)) # ‾
print(chr(175))  # ¯

answered Jan 24 '21 at 14:16

Basj

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score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Nov 25 '20 at 12:58

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Alt+0175 gives you upper score ¯¯

(Make sure you press and hold Alt while typing the numbers)

edited Nov 25 '20 at 12:58

ManSamVampire

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answered Nov 25 '20 at 04:38

Guest

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Unicode character equivalent to the underscore on top

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