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 <big>a̱ḇc̱</big> and <big>a̲b̲c̲</big> (only the latter should look like <big>abc</big>).

Unicode

Macron below character

Unicode defines several characters for the macron below:There are many similar marks covered elsewhere:

Spacing underscores, including

Combining underlines, including

• ;

International Phonetic Alphabet mark for retracted or backed articulation:

Precomposed characters

Various precomposed letters with a macron below are defined in Unicode: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.

Use

In Comanche, voiceless vowels are marked with a macron below (these are , , , , , and ).

In Swedish, is frequently used as a substitute for , particularly in handwriting and in prose.

See also

• Underscore

• Macron

References