It is called a circumflex.
A horizontal line This "horizontal line" that indicates a long vowel is called a Macron. The curved line(the "smile") over a short vowel is a Breve.
Michel
CREME BRUELEE
Il est arrive. He has arrived. The arrive has an acute accent over the letter 'e' at the end of it like / but smaller of course. My computer won't do it. Pronunciation - Eel ate areevay. The t is only pronounced in the word est because the next word starts with a vowel.
"c'est fini / c'est terminé"
Breve
In certain languages, such as Latin and pinyin Mandarin, a macron is placed over the top of a vowel. The most common use for this diacritic is to indicate the long vowel in a word.
Over a long vowel it is called a breve, and over a short vowel, I believe it is called a circumflex.
A bar over a vowel, also known as a macron, typically indicates a long vowel sound in phonetics. It shows that the vowel is pronounced for a longer duration than a short vowel.
a short vowel
long
long
The line over the top of a vowel is called a macron. It is used in some languages to indicate that the vowel should be pronounced as a long vowel sound.
A horizontal line This "horizontal line" that indicates a long vowel is called a Macron. The curved line(the "smile") over a short vowel is a Breve.
The down-curved symbol is called a breve (from Latin brevis for brief).(The bar that indicates long vowels is called a macron.)
The pronunciation mark over a short vowel is a curved line called a breve.breve
A breve is a symbol used to indicate a short vowel sound in phonetics and linguistics. It looks like a curved mark placed over a vowel.