Macron Below

This diacritic can easily be confused with low line. The difference is that the low line is longer, and should result in a single long line when used on several consecutive characters, while characters with macron below should have small gaps between the macrons. Precomposed characters with this diacritic have "line below" in their Unicode name, but it is in fact a macron below.

Macron Below in Unicode

Characters with Macron Below

ˍ

◌̱

Ḇ

ḇ

Ḏ

ḏ

ẖ

Ḵ

ḵ

Ḻ

ḻ

Ṉ

ṉ

U+02CD

U+0331

U+1E06

U+1E07

U+1E0E

U+1E0F

U+1E96

U+1E34

U+1E35

U+1E3A

U+1E3B

U+1E48

U+1E49

Modifier Letter Low Macron

Combining Macron Below

Latin Capital Letter B With Line Below

Latin Small Letter B With Line Below

Latin Capital Letter D With Line Below

Latin Small Letter D With Line Below

Latin Small Letter H With Line Below

Latin Capital Letter K With Line Below

Latin Small Letter K With Line Below

Latin Capital Letter L With Line Below

Latin Small Letter L With Line Below

Latin Capital Letter N With Line Below

Latin Small Letter N With Line Below

Ṟ

ṟ

Ṯ

ṯ

Ẕ

ẕ

U+1E5E

U+1E5F

U+1E6E

U+1E6F

U+1E94

U+1E95

Latin Capital Letter R With Line Below

Latin Small Letter R With Line Below

Latin Capital Letter T With Line Below

Latin Small Letter T With Line Below

Latin Capital Letter Z With Line Below

Latin Small Letter Z With Line Below

Macron Below in Natlangs

Uses of Macron Below

Usage	Language	Letters	Notes
Alphabet extension	Arabic (ISO 233 romanization, ISO/R 233 romanization)	H̱ẖ /x/	Note that H̱ is not a precomposed letter.
Disambiguation in transliteration	Amharic (BGN/PCGN 1967 transliteration)	H̱ẖ /h/	The Geʽez script has four types of characters all pronounced /h/ in Amharic due to sounds mergers. These may be transliterated with Hh, Ḥḥ, Ḫḫ resp. H̱ẖ, though the diacritics may be dropped. Note that H̱ is not a precomposed letter.
Fricative consonant	Arabic (DIN 31635 romanization, ISO 233 romanization, ISO/R 233 romanization)	Ḏḏ /ð/, Ṯṯ /θ/	There is also a Ḡḡ /ɣ~ɡ/ in ISO/R 233, using macron above, probably because it would not fit under lower case g.
	Arabic (Hans Wehr romanization)	ḏ /ð/, ḵ /x/, ṯ /θ/	ḵ replaced ḫ in the fourth edition of this transliteration scheme. Hans Wehr transliteration does not include capital letters. There is also a ḡ /ɣ~ɡ/, using macron above, probably because it would not fit under g.
Palatal or palatalized consonant	Ancient Egyptian (traditional transliteration)	Ḏḏ /tʲʼ/ or /t͡ʃʼ/, H̱ẖ /ç/, Ṯṯ /tʲ/ or /t͡ʃ/	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. Note that there is no precomposed form of uppercase H̱.

See Also

• Natlang Uses of Diacritics in the Latin Alphabet
• Macron
• Low Line
• 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.