A bar or stroke is a modification consisting of a line drawn through a
grapheme
In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest functional unit of a writing system.
The word ''grapheme'' is derived and the suffix ''-eme'' by analogy with ''phoneme'' and other names of emic units. The study of graphemes is called '' graphemi ...
. It may be used as a
diacritic
A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek (, "distinguishing"), from (, "to distinguish"). The word ''diacrit ...
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 (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
See also
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Strikethrough
Strikethrough is a typographical presentation of words with a horizontal line through their center, resulting in . Contrary to censored or sanitized (redacted) texts, the words remain readable. This presentation signifies one of two meanings. I ...
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X-bar theory
In linguistics, X-bar theory is a model of phrase-structure grammar and a theory of syntactic category formation that was first proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1970Chomsky, Noam (1970). Remarks on Nominalization. In: R. Jacobs and P. Rosenbaum (eds.) ...
(formal linguistics)
References
External links
Diacritics Project: All you need to design a font with correct accents
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Diacritics
Diakrytyka
Latin-script diacritics