Macron (undersign)
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◌
̱
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| Diacritical marks | |
| designation | character |
| Acute, simple | ◌́ |
| Acute, double | ◌̋ |
| Breve, about it | ◌̆ |
| Breve, including | ◌̮ |
| Cedilla, including | ◌̧ |
| Cedilla, about it | ◌̒ |
| Gravis, simple | ◌̀ |
| Gravis, double | ◌̏ |
| hook | ◌̉ |
| Hatschek | ◌̌ |
| horn | ◌̛ |
| Comma below | ◌̦ |
| Coronis | ◌̓ |
| Kroužek, about it | ◌̊ |
| Kroužek, including | ◌̥ |
| Macron, about it | ◌̄ |
| Macron, underneath | ◌̱ |
| Ogonek | ◌̨ |
| Period about that | ◌̇ |
| Point below | ◌̣ |
| Dash | ◌̶ |
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diacritical slash |
◌̷ |
| Alcohol asper | ◌̔ |
| Spiritus lenis | ◌̕ |
| Tilde, about it | ◌̃ |
| Tilde, underneath | ◌̰ |
| Trema, about it | ◌̈ |
| Trema, including | ◌̤ |
| circumflex | ◌̂ |
The macron as an undersign, also known as the underscore , does not occur in European languages, but is sometimes found in non-European languages and in transliterations . The mountain formations Uluṟu and Kata Tjuṯa in central Australia , for example, have a macron in their name. The names come from the Pitjantjatjara , the language of the Anangu ( Aborigines ) who live there .
In German dictionaries, a macron shows the stress and the long pronunciation of this vowel or vowels under a vowel (example: F u ß | geht) or several vowels (example: ver | h ee | rend).
Presentation on the computer
Character sets
In the ASCII and ISO 8859 character encodings , neither the macron underneath nor finished letters with macron underneath appear.
Unicode contains many ready-made characters with underscores and can represent further characters with a macron underneath by adding a combining macron (U + 0331 COMBINING MACRON BELOW ) underneath.
Example: ṟ o̱
A single low macron is contained in Unicode as the character U + 02CD (ˍ). It must not be confused with the similar-looking underscore , which is encoded in ASCII and Unicode at position U + 005F.
TeX and LaTeX
In the typesetting systems TeX and LaTeX , any characters can be displayed with a macron underneath. There is also the command in text mode for the text sentence \b{a}that puts an a .