Macron below
Diacritical mark
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::summary Diacritical mark ::
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Macron below is a combining diacritical mark that is used in various orthographies.
A non-combining form is . It is not to be confused with , and . The difference between "macron below" and "low line" is that the latter results in an unbroken underline when it is run together: compare a̱ḇc̱ and a̲b̲c̲ (only the latter should look like abc).
Unicode
Macron below character
Unicode defines several characters for the macron below:
::data[format=table] | macron below | combining || colspan="3" | spacing | character || Unicode || HTML || character || Unicode || HTML | |---|---|---| | ◌̱}} single | U+0331 | ̱ | | ◌͟◌}} double | U+035F | ͟ | ::
There are many similar marks covered elsewhere:
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Spacing underscores, including
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Combining underlines, including
- ;
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International Phonetic Alphabet mark for retracted or backed articulation:
Precomposed characters
Various precomposed letters with a macron below are defined in Unicode:
::data[format=table] | upper case || colspan="3" | lower case || rowspan="2" | notes | letter || Unicode || HTML || letter || Unicode || HTML | |---|---| | B_with_line_below Ḇ | U+1E06 | | D_with_line_below Ḏ | U+1E0E | | h_with_line_below | | | K_with_line_below Ḵ | U+1E34 | | L_with_line_below Ḻ | U+1E3A | | N_with_line_below Ṉ | U+1E48 | | R_with_line_below Ṟ | U+1E5E | | T_with_line_below Ṯ | U+1E6E | | Z_with_line_below Ẕ | U+1E94 | | | | ::
Note that the Unicode character names of precomposed characters whose decompositions contain use "WITH LINE BELOW" rather than "WITH MACRON BELOW". Thus, decomposes to and .
The Vietnamese đồng currency sign resembles a lower case d with a stroke and macron below: but is neither a letter nor decomposable.
In Swedish, is frequently used as a substitute for , particularly in handwriting and in prose.
References
References
- "Combining Diacritical Marks Code Chart, Range: 0300–036F". The Unicode Standard.
- "The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Consortium.
- "Latin Extended Additional Code Chart, Range: 1E00–1EFF". The Unicode Standard.
- "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard.
- (2013-04-14). "Varifrån kommer o med streck under?". Språkrådet.
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