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U+23F8 · DOUBLE VERTICAL BAR

Double Vertical Bar

  • CodepointU+23F8
  • NameDOUBLE VERTICAL BAR
  • Emoji namepause button
  • Decimal9208
  • BlockMiscellaneous Technical (U+2300–U+23FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version7.0 (2014)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+23F8 (⏸) is DOUBLE VERTICAL BAR, a symbol in the Miscellaneous Technical block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 7.0 (2014).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “pause button”, in the Symbols group, subgroup av-symbol. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+23F8 U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style.

How to type ⏸

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 8F B83 bytes
UTF-1623F81 code unit
UTF-32000023F84 bytes
HTML decimal⏸
HTML hex⏸
CSS\23F8in content: "…"
JavaScript\u23F8
JSON\u23F8
Python\u23F8
Python\N{DOUBLE VERTICAL BAR}by name
Java / C#\u23F8
C / C++\u23F8universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{23F8}
Go\u23F8
Ruby\u23F8
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9208)
URL-encoded%E2%8F%B8percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Technical

All in block →
U+23F2⏲Timer Clock U+23F3⏳Hourglass Not Done U+23F4⏴Black Medium Left-Pointing Triangle U+23F5⏵Black Medium Right-Pointing Triangle U+23F6⏶Black Medium Up-Pointing Triangle U+23F7⏷Black Medium Down-Pointing Triangle U+23F9⏹Black Square for Stop U+23FA⏺Black Circle for Record U+23FB⏻Power Symbol U+23FC⏼Power On-Off Symbol U+23FD⏽Power on Symbol U+23FE⏾Power Sleep Symbol