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. It can take the form of a vertical bar, slash, or crossbar.

◌̵
Stroke, bar
◌̶ ◌̷ ◌̸
In Unicode
  • U+0335 ◌̵ COMBINING SHORT STROKE OVERLAY
  • U+0336 ◌̶ COMBINING LONG STROKE OVERLAY
  • U+0337 ◌̷ COMBINING SHORT SOLIDUS OVERLAY
  • U+0338 ◌̸ COMBINING LONG SOLIDUS OVERLAY

A stroke is sometimes drawn through the numerals 7 (horizontal overbar) and 0 (overstruck foreslash), to make them more distinguishable from the number 1 and the letter O, respectively.

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

Letters with bar

Currency signs with bar

Currency symbols and letters with double bar
//
Double bar
In Unicodenot a Unicode character

See also

References
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