Stroke

This diacritic, and the one consisting of a horizontal bar, may both be called stroke in Unicode. In this article they are treated as two separate diacritics. Latin Small Letter Eth, ð, is listed under the bar diacritic. There are several currency symbols and mathematical symbols with strokes, but they are not included in this article.

Stroke in Unicode

Characters with Stroke

◌̸

◌̷

Ⱥ

ⱥ

Ȼ

ȼ

Ɇ

ɇ

Ł

ł

ᴌ

ƛ

Ø

U+0338

U+0337

U+023A

U+2C65

U+023B

U+023C

U+0246

U+0247

U+0141

U+0142

U+1D0C

U+019B

U+00D8

Combining Long Solidus Overlay

Combining Short Solidus Overlay

Latin Capital Letter A With Stroke

Latin Small Letter A With Stroke

Latin Capital Letter C With Stroke

Latin Small Letter C With Stroke

Latin Capital Letter E With Stroke

Latin Small Letter E With Stroke

Latin Capital Letter L With Stroke

Latin Small Letter L With Stroke

Latin Letter Small Capital L With Stroke

Latin Small Letter Lambda With Stroke

Latin Capital Letter O With Stroke

Note: May be confused with Cedi Sign, ₵ (U+20B5).

Note: May be confused with Cent Sign, ¢ (U+00A2).

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Note: Phonetic character; not used in any orthography.

Note: May be confused with Empty Set, ∅ (U+2205).

ø

ᴓ

Ǿ

ǿ

ẜ

Ⱦ

ⱦ

ᵺ

U+00F8

U+1D13

U+01FE

U+01FF

U+1E9C

U+023E

U+2C66

U+1D7A

Latin Small Letter O With Stroke

Latin Small Letter Sideways O With Stroke

Latin Capital Letter O With Stroke And Acute

Latin Small Letter O With Stroke And Acute

Latin Small Letter Long S With Diagonal Stroke

Latin Capital Letter T With Diagonal Stroke

Latin Small Letter T With Diagonal Stroke

Latin Small Letter Th With Strikethrough

Note: May be confused with Diameter Sign, ⌀ (U+2300).

Note: Phonetic character; not used in any orthography.

Note: Phonetic character used in some American dictionaries. Not used in any orthography.

Stroke in Natlangs

Uses of Stroke

Usage	Language	Letters	Notes
Alphabet extension	Heiltsuk-Oowekyala (Heiltsuk dialect, official orthography)	Łł /ɬ/, ƛ /t͡ɬ/, ƛ̓ /t͡ɬʼ/	The uppercase versions of ƛ and ƛ̓ are upside-down capital barred Y, resp. upside down capital barred Y with comma above, but these are letters that are not included in Unicode.
	Navajo	Łł /ɬ/, Tł tł /tɬʰ/, Tłʼ tłʼ /tɬʼ/	Unaccented Ll stands for /l/. There is no unaccented Tl tl or Tlʼ tlʼ, but there is a Dl dl which stands for /tˡ/.
	Sahaptin	ƛ /t͡ɬ/, ƛ’ /t͡ɬʼ/	According to Wikipedia, it is "used in transcribing Sahaptin".
Front version of back vowel	Danish	Øø /ø(ː), œ(ː)/, Ǿǿ /ø(ː), œ(ː)/	The acute accent is by no means obligatory, but it can be used to differentiate between two homophones, which in speech would be differentiated by intonation. Oo stands for /o(ː)/.
	Norwegian	Øø /œ, øː/	Oo stands for /uː, oː, ɔ/.
Other	Polish	Łł /w/	Historically it stood for /ɫ/. In Polish typography, the diacritic on this letter is considered to be a kreska.

Stroke in Phonetic Transcription

Uses of stroke

Use	Transcription system	Characters	Notes
Front version of back vowel	International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)	ø

See Also

• Natlang Uses of Diacritics in the Latin Alphabet