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.
A stroke is sometimes drawn through the numerals 7 and 0, 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.
In Unicode, there are bars at,,, and.

Latin alphabet