Macron below is a
combining diacritical mark
In digital typography, combining characters are Character (computing), characters that are intended to modify other characters. The most common combining characters in the Latin script are the combining diacritic, diacritical marks (including c ...
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
Unicode or ''The Unicode Standard'' or TUS is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 16.0 defines 154,998 Char ...
defines several characters for the macron below:
There are many similar marks covered elsewhere:
* Spacing
underscore
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s, including
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* Combining
underline
An underscore or underline is a line drawn under a segment of text. In proofreading, underscoring is a convention that says "set this text in italic type", traditionally used on manuscript or typescript as an instruction to the printer. Its u ...
s, including
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International Phonetic Alphabet
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mark for
retracted or backed articulation:
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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
A currency symbol or currency sign is a graphic symbol used to denote a currency unit. Usually it is defined by a monetary authority, such as the national central bank for the currency concerned.
A symbol may be positioned in various ways, acc ...
resembles a lower case d with a stroke and macron below: but is neither a letter nor decomposable.
See also
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Underscore
An underscore or underline is a line drawn under a segment of text. In proofreading, underscoring is a convention that says "set this text in italic type", traditionally used on manuscript or typescript as an instruction to the printer. Its ...
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Macron
References
{{Latin script, , macron
Latin-script diacritics
Aramaic languages
Arabic language