Bar (diacritic)

A bar or stroke is a modification consisting of a line drawn through a grapheme. It may be used as a diacritic to derive new letters from old ones, or simply as an addition to make a grapheme more distinct from others.

A stroke is sometimes drawn through the numbers 7 and 0, to make them more distinguishable.

In phonetic transcription, a stroke through a letter often indicates that the sound is a fricative.

For the specific usages of various letters with bars and strokes, see their individual articles:

Latin alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

Arabic alphabet

*Lām → unicode|ݪ
*Rāʼ → unicode|ݛ
*Wāw → unicode|ۅ

ee also

*Strikethrough

External links

* [http://diacritics.typo.cz Diacritics Project: All you need to design a font with correct accents]
* [http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/dia/diacritics-revised.htm Orthographic diacritics]

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