Dot Below

The dot below is also known as underdot.

Dot Below in Unicode

Characters with Dot Below

◌̣

Ạ

ạ

Ậ

ậ

Ặ

ặ

Ḅ

ḅ

Ḍ

ḍ

Ẹ

ẹ

U+0323

U+1EA0

U+1EA1

U+1EAC

U+1EAD

U+1EB6

U+1EB7

U+1E04

U+1E05

U+1E0C

U+1E0D

U+1EB8

U+1EB9

Combining Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter A With Dot Below

Latin Small Letter A With Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter A With Circumflex And Dot Below

Latin Small Letter A With Circumflex And Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter A With Breve And Dot Below

Latin Small Letter A With Breve And Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter B With Dot Below

Latin Small Letter B With Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter D With Dot Below

Latin Small Letter D With Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter E With Dot Below

Latin Small Letter E With Dot Below

Ệ

ệ

Ḥ

ḥ

Ị

ị

Ḳ

ḳ

Ḷ

ḷ

Ḹ

ḹ

Ṃ

U+1EC6

U+1EC7

U+1E24

U+1E25

U+1ECA

U+1ECB

U+1E32

U+1E33

U+1E36

U+1E37

U+1E38

U+1E39

U+1E42

Latin Capital Letter E With Circumflex And Dot Below

Latin Small Letter E With Circumflex And Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter H With Dot Below

Latin Small Letter H With Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter I With Dot Below

Latin Small Letter I With Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter K With Dot Below

Latin Small Letter K With Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter L With Dot Below

Latin Small Letter L With Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter L With Dot Below And Macron

Latin Small Letter L With Dot Below And Macron

Latin Capital Letter M With Dot Below

ṃ

Ṇ

ṇ

Ọ

ọ

Ộ

ộ

Ợ

ợ

Ṛ

ṛ

Ṝ

ṝ

U+1E43

U+1E46

U+1E47

U+1ECC

U+1ECD

U+1ED8

U+1ED9

U+1EE2

U+1EE3

U+1E5A

U+1E5B

U+1E5C

U+1E5D

Latin Small Letter M With Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter N With Dot Below

Latin Small Letter N With Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter O With Dot Below

Latin Small Letter O With Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter O With Circumflex And Dot Below

Latin Small Letter O With Circumflex And Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter O With Horn And Dot Below

Latin Small Letter O With Horn And Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter R With Dot Below

Latin Small Letter R With Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter R With Dot Below And Macron

Latin Small Letter R With Dot Below And Macron

Ṣ

ṣ

Ṩ

ṩ

Ṭ

ṭ

Ụ

ụ

Ự

ự

Ṿ

ṿ

Ẉ

U+1E62

U+1E63

U+1E68

U+1E69

U+1E6C

U+1E6D

U+1EE4

U+1EE5

U+1EF0

U+1EF1

U+1E7E

U+1E7F

U+1E88

Latin Capital Letter S With Dot Below

Latin Small Letter S With Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter S With Dot Below And Dot Above

Latin Small Letter S With Dot Below And Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter T With Dot Below

Latin Small Letter T With Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter U With Dot Below

Latin Small Letter U With Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter U With Horn And Dot Below

Latin Small Letter U With Horn And Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter V With Dot Below

Latin Small Letter V With Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter W With Dot Below

ẉ

Ỵ

ỵ

Ẓ

ẓ

U+1E89

U+1EF4

U+1EF5

U+1E92

U+1E93

Latin Small Letter W With Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter Y With Dot Below

Latin Small Letter Y With Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter Z With Dot Below

Latin Small Letter Z With Dot Below

Dot Below in Natlangs

Uses of Dot Below

Usage	Language	Letters	Notes
Creaky voice	Vietnamese	Ạạ /a̰ːʔ˨˩/, Ặặ /a̰ʔ˨˩/, Ậậ /ə̰ʔ˨˩/, Ẹẹ /ɛ̰ʔ˨˩/, Ệệ /ḛʔ˨˩/, Ịị /ḭʔ˨˩/, Ọọ /ɔ̰ʔ˨˩/, Ộộ /o̰ʔ˨˩/, Ợợ /ə̰ːʔ˨˩/, Ụụ /ṵʔ˨˩/, Ựự /ɨ̰ʔ˨˩/, Ỵỵ /ḭʔ˨˩/	The dot below stands for low falling tone with creaky voice and a following glottal stop. There are many exceptions to the phonemic values of these letters though.
Emphatic consonant	Akkadian (DMG-umschrift transliteration)	Ṣṣ /sʼ/, Ṭṭ /tʼ/	Because Akkadian is an extinct language, the exact pronunciation can't be known for sure; so the phonemic representation here might not be entirely accurate.
	Ancient Egyptian (traditional transliteration)	Ḥḥ /ħ/, Ḳḳ /qʼ/	The pronunciation of Ancient Egyptian changed much during the millennia it was spoken, and the exact pronunciation can't be known for sure, therefore the phonemic representation here might not be entirely accurate. Qq may be used as an alternative to Ḳḳ.
	Arabic (DIN 31635 romanization, ISO 233 romanization, ISO/R 233 romanization)	Ḍḍ /dˤ/, Ḥḥ /ħ/, Ṣṣ /sˤ/, Ṭṭ /tˤ/, Ẓẓ /ðˤ~zˤ/
	Arabic (Hans Wehr romanization)	ḍ /dˤ/, ḥ /ħ/, ṣ /sˤ/, ṭ /tˤ/, ẓ /ðˤ~zˤ/	This romanization does not include capital letters.
Lowered vowel with retracted tongue root	Yoruba (Crowther's alphabet)	Ẹẹ /ɛ̙/, Ọọ /ɔ̙/	These letters were used in older forms of Yoruba orthography. See Vertical Line Below.
Raised vowel	Slovene (orthography with tonal accentuation)	Ẹẹ /e/, Ẹ́ẹ́ /éː/, Ẹ̀ẹ̀ /é/, Ẹ̏ẹ̏ /è/, Ẹ̑ẹ̑ or Ệệ /èː/, Ọọ /o/, Ọ́ọ́ /óː/, Ọ̀ọ̀ /ó/, Ọ̏ọ̏ /ò/, Ọ̑ọ̑ or Ộộ /òː/	These letters are not used in the standard orthography of Slovene, but in language materials.
Syllabic consonant	Heiltsuk-Oowekyala (Heiltsuk dialect, official orthography and Rath's orthography)	Ṃṃ /m̩/, Ṃ́ṃ́ /ḿ̩/, Ṃ̓ṃ̓ /m̩ˀ/, Ṇṇ /n̩/, Ṇ́ṇ́ /ń̩/, Ṇ̓ṇ̓ /n̩ˀ/, Ḷḷ /l̩/, Ḷ́ḷ́ /ĺ̩/, Ḷ̓ḷ̓ /l̩ˀ/
Other	ISO 15919 romanization of Indic scripts	Ṇṇ /ɳ/	Ṇṇ is used for transcribing the Indic diacritic anusvāra before retroflex consonants.

Dot Below in Conlangs

Uses of Dot Below

Usage	Language	Creator	Letters	Notes
Absence of pitch accent	Inng (external transcription)	Qwynegold	Ạạ /a/, Ẹẹ /ə, i/, Ịị /i/, Ḷḷ /l̩/ Ṃṃ /ŋ̍/, Ṇṇ /ŋ̍/, Ọọ /o, ə, a/, Ụụ /u/	The dot below here marks that the syllable is without accent, and that the actual tone of the syllable may end at varying heights depending on the environment. (See also Breve for another marking of accentless syllables in Inng.) Some of these accented letters only appear as part of a digraph when representing a certain sound.

See Also

• Natlang Uses of Diacritics in the Latin Alphabet
• Dot Above
• Transliteration of Arabic (Pedersen, Thomas. 2008.) has a concise list of comparisons between DIN 31635, ISO 233, ISO/R 233, UNGEGN, ALA-LC, and The Encyclopedia of Islam romanizations of Arabic.