◌̵

◌̵ U+0335, ̵ COMBINING SHORT STROKE OVERLAY ← ◌̴ [U+0334] Combining Diacritical Marks ◌̶ → [U+0336]

◌̶ U+0336, ̶ COMBINING LONG STROKE OVERLAY ← ◌̵ [U+0335] Combining Diacritical Marks ◌̷ → [U+0337]

Translingual

Diacritical mark

◌̵

1. (phonetics, dated) A common ad hoc remedy for the lack of type for phonetic symbols on manual typewriters. A letter with the approximate sound would be typed, then the writer would hit backspace and overstrike either with a hyphen (for a narrow letter) or with an underscore after scrolling the paper upward half a line (for a wide letter).

Usage notes

Unicode provides two characters differing only in size, for combining with narrow and wide letters. Products of an overstruck solidus include:

a̵ b̵ c̵ d̵ e̵ f̵ g̵ h̵ i̵ ɪ̵ ɩ̵ j̵ l̵ n̵ o̵ p̵ r̵ s̵ t̵ u̵ ᴜ̵ ʊ̵ y̵ z̵ 2̵ ʔ̵ ʕ̵ ʖ̵ with a short stroke / hyphen, and

a̶ b̶ c̶ d̶ e̶ g̶ h̶ n̶ m̶ o̶ p̶ u̶ ᴜ̶ ʊ̶ w̶ y̶ and B̶ D̶ G̶ N̶ with a long stroke / underscore.

However, font support is poor, and Unicode prefers to encode the resulting letters individually, if there is sufficient need, rather than to rely on the diacritics:

Ǥ ǥ Ħ Ɨ ɨ ᵻ ᵼ Ɉ ɉ Ꝋ ꝋ ᵽ ɍ ᵾ ᵿ Ꟊ ꟊ Ŧ ŧ Ɏ ɏ Ƶ ƶ ƻ ƾ ʡ ʢ.

Occasionally a letter is seen overstruck with an equals sign ⟨=⟩, as in Ⱡ ⱡ. This is not supported as a diacritic by Unicode as of 2023.

Synonyms

• ◌̷, ◌̸