can represent either a long a
or a mid-tone a.
Contrast
acute accent,
grave accent.
[Spanish:
macrón]
macron:
a small horizontal line (a type of diacritic)
placed above a
vowel,
commonly used to write either
length or mid [2] tone.
Thus
can represent either a long a
or a mid-tone a.
Contrast
acute accent,
grave accent.
[Spanish:
macrón]
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