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U+2016 · DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE

Double Vertical Line

  • CodepointU+2016
  • NameDOUBLE VERTICAL LINE
  • Decimal8214
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2016 (‖) is DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE, a punctuation mark in the General Punctuation block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ‖

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 80 963 bytes
UTF-1620161 code unit
UTF-32000020164 bytes
HTML named‖named character reference
HTML named‖named character reference
HTML decimal‖
HTML hex‖
CSS\2016in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2016
JSON\u2016
Python\u2016
Python\N{DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE}by name
Java / C#\u2016
C / C++\u2016universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2016}
Go\u2016
Ruby\u2016
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8214)
URL-encoded%E2%80%96percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+2010‐Hyphen U+2011‑Non-Breaking Hyphen U+2012‒Figure Dash U+2013–En Dash U+2014—Em Dash U+2015―Horizontal Bar U+2017‗Double Low Line U+2018‘Left Single Quotation Mark U+2019’Right Single Quotation Mark U+201A‚Single Low-9 Quotation Mark U+201B‛Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark U+201C“Left Double Quotation Mark