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

• A →
• B →
• C →
• D → Ð ð, Đ đ,
• E → E with stroke
• G →
• H → Ħ ħ
• I → ,
• J → J with stroke,
• K → K with stroke
• L → Ł ł,
• O → Ø ø,
• P →
• Q → Q with stroke
• R → R with stroke
• T → Ŧ ŧ,
• U → ,
• Y → Y with stroke
• Z →
• 2 →

Cyrillic alphabet

• Г →
• К → ,
• О → ()
• Р →
• У →
• Ч →
• Ь →

Arabic alphabet

• Lām →
• Rāʼ →
• Wāw →

External links

• Diacritics Project - All you need to design a font with correct accents