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The following languages or alphabets use the macron to mark tones:

In, the official Romanization of ,

macrons over a, e, i, o, u, ü (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū, ǖ)

indicate the high level tone of.

The alternative to the macron is

the number 1 after the syllable (for example, tā = ta1).

Similarly, the Cantonese Yale Romanization uses the macron

to represent the high level tone, as in yāt gāan chāan tēng (一間餐廳, a restaurant).

In the International Phonetic Alphabet,

a macron over a vowel indicates a mid-level tone.

A macron (/ˈmækrɒn, ˈmeɪ-/) is a diacritical mark,

a straight bar (¯) placed above a letter, usually a vowel.

Its name derives from the Greek μακρόν (makrón), meaning "long",

and 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⟩.

The opposite is the breve ⟨˘⟩,

which marks a short or light syllable or a short vowel.