Slash accent

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Diacritical marks
designation	character
Acute, simple	◌́
Acute, double	◌̋
Breve, about it	◌̆
Breve, including	◌̮
Cedilla, including	◌̧
Cedilla, about it	◌̒
Gravis, simple	◌̀
Gravis, double	◌̏
hook	◌̉
Hatschek	◌̌
horn	◌̛
Comma below	◌̦
Coronis	◌̓
Kroužek, about it	◌̊
Kroužek, including	◌̥
Macron, about it	◌̄
Macron, underneath	◌̱
Ogonek	◌̨
Period about that	◌̇
Point below	◌̣
Dash	◌̶
diacritical slash	◌̷
Alcohol asper	◌̔
Spiritus lenis	◌̕
Tilde, about it	◌̃
Tilde, underneath	◌̰
Trema, about it	◌̈
Trema, including	◌̤
circumflex	◌̂

The slash accent (also slash accent or bar ) is a diacritical mark that has the shape of a horizontal slash that usually crosses a letter at about the middle . It also occurs in the variation of a double horizontal line. Related forms of this accent are the diacritical slash and the diacritical vertical line, all three of which are collectively referred to as bar or stroke . Graphically related forms of this accent are the macron above and the macron below the letter. The macron is sometimes called a horizontal line, which can lead to confusion.

Like all diacritical marks , the horizontal accent is an additional symbol that identifies a variant of a letter, e.g. for a different pronunciation or accentuation. It must therefore not be confused with horizontal bars that are regular parts of letters (for example in f or t) and also not with horizontal bars standing alone at medium height, such as the half-square .

In character sets have their own characters for letters with stroke accent. Typographically incorrect would be to slash accent with the markup of strikethrough to imitate.

Typographic design

The slash can either cross the entire letter or just part of it, such as in Ƀ or Ð . The exact position and length of the horizontal line is up to the designer of the font and can depend on the space available. Example:

The letter ǥ in different scripts

In alphabets

There is or was the slash accent in some alphabets :

in several languages and scripts Ƀ / ƀ
in Old English, Old Norse, Icelandic and Faroese Ð / ð (here the slash is slanted in the lower case)
in Serbo-Croatian, Vietnamese and North Sami Đ / đ (here the horizontal line is also in the lower case letter)
in several African languages ( Africa alphabet ) as Ɖ / ɖ "African D" (here the slash is subscripted in lowercase). In Unicode , the three identical looking are distinguished.
in the Scoltsamian Ǥ / ǥ
in Maltese Ħ / ħ
in Ɨ / ɨ, which is used in several African languages (Africa alphabet), e.g. B. Budu is used
in the South American language Arhuaco Ɉ / ɉ
in International Phonetic Alphabet ɟ (j without a dot with a slash)
in the Venetian Ƚ / ƚ
im ƛ , which is used in several American languages
in Azerbaijani Ɵ / ɵ (1929–1939, 1939–1991 replaced by the Cyrillic Ө , which is a separate letter and not an O with a dash accent)
in the Africa alphabet temporarily Ɵ / ɵ
in the Africa alphabet Ɍ / ɍ
in North Sami Ŧ / ŧ
in several languages Ʉ / ʉ
in the rarely used Ɏ / ɏ
in several Turkic languages such as Azerbaijani or Tatar Ƶ / ƶ (1920s)
in today rarely used the Latin alphabet Kildinsamischen Z / Z
sporadically or handwritten in Polish Ƶ / ƶ as a replacement for the character Ż
in phonetic alphabets ƻ (digit 2 with slash , obsolete)

in phonetic alphabets ƾ ( ligature of t and s with slash, obsolete)

In cursive

In the cursive script , an additional line can help to prevent reading errors. So it has no meaning, but simply makes reading easier.

In continental Europe and Latin America, the number 7 is often written with a slash in cursive script, which improves the differentiation from the number 1.
Likewise, in some cultures, Ƶ is often written instead of Z in cursive script, and more rarely ƶ is written instead of z, which improves the distinction between the number 2

In currency symbols

There is or was the slash accent in some currency symbols :

for the Argentine Austral as ₳ (as an additional and thus double slash in an A)
for the Vietnamese Đồng as ₫ (as a superscript d with a slash, which is often also underlined)
for the euro as the euro symbol € (as an additional and thus double slash in a rounded E)
for the Laotian kip as ₭ (as a slash in a K)
for the British pound , the Italian lira and the Irish pound as £ or ₤ (as a single or double slash in an italic L)
for the Nigerian naira as ₦ (as a double slash in an N)
for the Philippine peso as ₱ (as a single or double slash in a P)
for the Indian rupee as ₹ (formed from R and र with a slash)
for the North and South Korean won as ₩ (as a double slash in a W)
for the Japanese yen as ¥ (as a double slash in a Y)
for the Chinese Renminbi as ¥ (as a double slash in a Y)
for the Zaïre as Ƶ

In science and technology

The ħ is used as a symbol for the reduced Planck constant .
The ƛ ( Lambda -Minuskel with stroke) is used as a sign of the angular wavelength (angular wavelength used).
In dynamics, the Ŧ stands for the highest possible number of rotary movements per life cycle of a rotating component.

Keyboard input

The Ä key on the T2 keyboard layout with a slash accent

On the keyboard layout T2 , the dash accent can be entered using the dead key Alt Gr + Ä. In conjunction with the space bar , this dead key generates the typographically correct minus sign .

Individual evidence

↑ European keyboard 2.02 - assignment diagram and brief instructions. In: europatastatur.de. Retrieved March 6, 2017 . (PDF)

[1] European keyboard 2.02 - assignment diagram and brief instructions. In: europatastatur.de. Retrieved March 6, 2017 . (PDF)