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Macron

noun
1.
A diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound.





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"Macron" Quotes from Famous Books



... | Accents and diacritical marks have generally been | | standardised. Where there is a single instance of a word | | with an accent, and one without, no change has been made | | to the original. (e.g. momme/momme; murashite/murashite; | | Kuramae/Kuramae). | | | | The letter o with a macron is represented as o[u]. | | The letter u with a macron is represented as u[u]. | | | | Kanji characters in the original book are shown | | enclosed in square brackets: for example, [kami]. | | | | The italicisation of Japanese words has been standardised. | | | | Punctuation and obvious printer's ...
— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville


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