The letter "ā," which has a line over it called a macron, is pronounced as a long "a" sound, similar to the "a" in "father." It indicates that the vowel sound is held longer than a regular "a." In phonetic terms, it can be represented as /ɑː/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
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