Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?

Question

What I am looking for:

A way to style one HALF of a character. (In this case, half the letter being transparent)

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Answer 1

It may be irrelevant, maybe not, but sometime ago, I created a jQuery function that does the same thing, but horizontally.

I called it "Strippex" For 'stripe'+'text', demo : http://cdpn.io/FcIBg

I'm not saying this is the solution of any problems, but I already tried to apply css to half of a character, but horizontally, So the idea is the same, the realisation may be horrible, but it works.

Ah, and the most important, I had fun creating it !