The macron has no unique value, and is simply used to distinguish between two different phonemes.

As noted above, it has recently become standard in Māori spelling to indicate a long vowel by a macron.

# < span id =" n-pinyin ">↑↑↑↑</ span > Pinyin has four tone markers that can go on top of the any of the six vowels ( a, e, i, o, u, ü ); e. g.: macron ( ā, ē, ī, ō, ū, ǖ ), acute accent ( á, é, í, ó, ú, ǘ ), caron ( ǎ, ě, ǐ, ǒ, ǔ, ǚ ), grave accent ( à, è, ì, ò, ù, ǜ ).

The script has some unique ways to signify abbreviations and contractions – like most other Latin scripts, missing letters can be signified by a macron over the previous letter, although Beneventan often adds a dot to the macron.

The central plot device is the " macroscope ", a large crystal that can be used to focus a newly discovered type of particle, the " macron ".

In the International Phonetic Alphabet the macron is used to indicate mid tone ; the sign for a long vowel is a modified triangular colon ⟨⟩.

The use of the macron is widespread in modern Māori, although sometimes the trema mark is used instead ( for example, " Mäori " instead of " Māori ") if the macron is not available for technical reasons.

The Māori words for macron are pōtae (" hat ") or tohutō.

The alternative to the macron is the number 1 after the syllable ( for example, tā = ta1 ).

* In older handwriting such as the German Kurrentschrift, the macron over an a-e-i-o-u or ä-ö-ü stood for an n, or over an m or an n meant that the letter was doubled.

Thus, in several languages of the Banks Islands, including Mwotlap, the simple m stands for, but an m with a macron ( m ̄) is a labial-velar nasal ; while the simple n stands for the common alveolar nasal, an n with macron ( n ̄) represents the velar nasal ; the vowel ē stands for a ( short ) higher by contrast with plain e ; likewise ō contrasts with plain o.

In Kokota, ḡ is used for the velar stop, but g without macron is the voiced velar fricative.

* In the German Kurrent handwriting, a macron is used on some consonants, especially n and m, as a shortform for a double consonant ( for example, n ̄ instead of nn ).

* In Russian cursive, as well as in some others based on the Cyrillic script ( for example, Macedonian ), a lowercase Т looks like a lowercase m, and a macron is often used to distinguish it from Ш, which looks like a lowercase w ( see Т ).

Vowel length is indicated by a macron ( ā ) or a breve ( ă ) for long and short vowels, respectively.

The Hepburn romanization shōjo uses a macron for the long vowel, though the prevalence of Latin-1 fonts often results in a circumflex instead, as in shôjo.

the following example uses the character appropriate for an ancient Greek transliteration or transcription < ē >, an < e > with a macron.

" Although alo does indeed mean " presence " etc., the word for breath is spelled with a macron or kahakoō over the a ( hā ) whereas the word aloha does not have a long a.

" Abbreviations are often indicated by a colon, as in 18th-century handwriting, for example " Sen: Co: Prae :" ( Senior Commoner Prefect ), or else by a macron, for example " mathmā " and " examinā ".

In music, the tenuto marking resembles the macron.

Where there is ambiguity, long and short alpha are sometimes written with a macron and breve today: Ᾱᾱ, Ᾰᾰ.

The Hepburn romanization system uses a macron to mark long vowels, and the Kunrei-shiki and Nihon-shiki systems use a circumflex.

A macron, from the Greek ( makrón ), meaning " long ", is a diacritic placed above a vowel ( and, more rarely, under or above a consonant ).

In Greco-Roman metrics and in the description of the metrics of other literatures, the macron was introduced and is still widely used to mark a long ( heavy ) syllable.

The following languages or transliteration systems use the macron to mark long vowels:

* Slavicists use the macron to indicate a non-tonic long vowel, or a non-tonic syllabic liquid, such as on l, lj, m, n, nj, and r. Languages with this feature include standard and jargon varieties of Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene, Bulgarian.

When writing Common Eldarin forms, Tolkien often used the macron to indicate long vowels.

The breve sign indicates a short vowel, as opposed to the macron ¯ which indicates long vowels, in academic transcription.

( However, there is a frequent convention of indicating only the long vowels: it is then understood that a vowel with no macron is short.

For instance, long vowels were marked with an accent diacritic in the original version, but this was later replaced in the 1954 Government of India update with a macron.

This term is often informally transliterated as " kempo ", as a result of applying Traditional Hepburn romanization, but failing to use a macron to indicate the long vowel.

Special Serbian texts also use ⟨ и ⟩ with a macron to represent long unstressed variant of the sound.

According to Williams ' definitive Dictionary of the Māori Language, tangata means " man " or " human being ", whilst tāngata ( with the long ā ) is the plural meaning " people "; tangata ( without the macron ) can also mean " people " in reference to a group with a singular identity.

:* Hawaiian uses the kahakô ( macron ) over vowels, although there is some disagreement over considering them as individual letters.

Elongated vowels are usually denoted with a line over the vowel ( a macron ) in rōmaji, or a chōonpu succeeding the vowel in Japanese.

Long vowels were indicated by a macron below them, though the umlaut was still above.

* the macron ( statūs ), lengthening vowels

Long vowels can be written either with a macron or a circumflex.

In general usage, where letters appear with the caron ( č, š and ž ) they are considered as separate letters from c, s or z and collated separately ; letters with the ogonek ( ą, ę, į and ų ), the macron ( ū ) and the superdot ( ė ) are considered as separate letters as well, but not given a unique collation order.

In Hanyu Pinyin, the four tones of Mandarin Chinese are denoted by the macron ( first tone ), acute ( second tone ), caron ( third tone ) and grave ( fourth tone ) diacritics.

* The word ' breath ' is hā ( with a macron or kahakō over the a ), not plain ha.

This version also listed eight accents ( acute accent ( ´ ), grave accent ( ` ), circumflex ( ^ ), caron ( ˇ ), macron ( ¯ ), tilde ( ˜ ), trema ( ¨ ), and a superscript dot (˙) and nine punctuation marks (?

Just like the Latin letters I / i ( and J / j ), the dot above the letter only appears in its lowercase form, and only if that letter is not combined with a diacritic above it ( notably the diaeresis used in Ukrainian to note the letter yi of its alphabet, and the macron ).