Ring Below

This is the lower counterpart to the ring diacritic. The ring below is used in IPA to indicate voicelessness and in Indo-European and Sanskrit studies to indicate syllabicity. Note that this diacritic may be confused with dot below ◌̣ or square below ◌̻ (U+033B), especially in small font sizes.

Ring Below in Unicode

Characters with Ring Below

˳	◌̥	Ḁ	ḁ
U+02F3	U+0325	U+1E00	U+1E01
Modifier Letter Low Ring	Combining Ring Below	Latin Capital Letter A With Ring Below	Latin Small Letter A With Ring Below

Ring Below in Natlangs

Uses of Ring Below

Usage	Language	Letters	Notes
Syllabic consonant	ISO 15919 romanization of Indic scripts	L̥l̥ /l̩/, L̥̄l̥̄ /l̩ː/, R̥r̥ /r̩/, R̥̄r̥̄ /r̩ː/	None of these letters are precomposed.

Ring Below in Phonetic Transcriptions

Uses of Ring Below

Use	Transcription system	Notes
Voiceless phoneme	International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)	Can be replaced by ring above if the base letter has a descender. The ring diacritic is used on letters representing voiced sounds, when there is no dedicated symbol for the voiceless version of the sound. It may also be used with symbols for voiced sounds to represent slack voice.

See Also

• Natlang Uses of Diacritics in the Latin Alphabet
• Ring Above