Bar (diacritic)
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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.
In Unicode, there are bars at , . Not to be confused with .
Diacritic
A diacritic is a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph. The term derives from the Greek διακριτικός . Diacritic is both an adjective and a noun, whereas diacritical is only an adjective. Some diacritical marks, such as the acute and grave are often called accents...
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
0 (number)
0 is both a numberand the numerical digit used to represent that number in numerals.It fulfills a central role in mathematics as the additive identity of the integers, real numbers, and many other algebraic structures. As a digit, 0 is used as a placeholder in place value systems...
, to make them more distinguishable.
In phonetic transcription
Phonetic transcription
Phonetic transcription is the visual representation of speech sounds . The most common type of phonetic transcription uses a phonetic alphabet, e.g., the International Phonetic Alphabet....
, a stroke through a letter often indicates that the sound is a fricative
Fricative consonant
Fricatives are consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together. These may be the lower lip against the upper teeth, in the case of ; the back of the tongue against the soft palate, in the case of German , the final consonant of Bach; or...
.
For the specific usages of various letters with bars and strokes, see their individual articles.
In Unicode, there are bars at , . Not to be confused with .
Latin alphabet
- A →
- B →
- C →
- D →
- E →
- G →
- H →
- I →
- J →
- K → K with strokeK with strokeK with stroke is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from K with the addition of a bar through the letter.It was used in Latin as an abbreviation for words that start with k...
- L →
- O →
- P →
- Q → Q with strokeQ with strokeQ with stroke is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from Q with the addition of a bar through the letter.It was used in Latin as an abbreviation.It is also used as a phonetic symbol, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.-Computer encoding:...
- R →
- T →
- U →
- Y →
- Z →
- 2 →
- Þ →
Cyrillic alphabet
- Г →
- К → ,
- О →
- Р →
- У →
- Ч →
- Ь →