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U+FFE8 · HALFWIDTH FORMS LIGHT VERTICAL

Halfwidth Forms Light Vertical

  • CodepointU+FFE8
  • NameHALFWIDTH FORMS LIGHT VERTICAL
  • Decimal65512
  • BlockHalfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (U+FF00–U+FFEF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthH — Halfwidth
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+FFE8 (￨) is HALFWIDTH FORMS LIGHT VERTICAL, a symbol in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms 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).

It is a halfwidth form of U+2502 │ (compatibility decomposition <narrow>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+2502 │. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type ￨

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8EF BF A83 bytes
UTF-16FFE81 code unit
UTF-320000FFE84 bytes
HTML decimal&#65512;
HTML hex&#xFFE8;
CSS\FFE8in content: "…"
JavaScript\uFFE8
JSON\uFFE8
Python\uFFE8
Python\N{HALFWIDTH FORMS LIGHT VERTICAL}by name
Java / C#\uFFE8
C / C++\uFFE8universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{FFE8}
Go\uFFE8
Ruby\uFFE8
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(65512)
URL-encoded%EF%BF%A8percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+2502 │
NFKDU+2502 │
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+00311Digit One U+0049ILatin Capital Letter I U+006ClLatin Small Letter L U+007C|Vertical Line U+0196ƖLatin Capital Letter Iota U+01C0ǀLatin Letter Dental Click U+0399ΙGreek Capital Letter Iota U+0406ІCyrillic Capital Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I U+04C0ӀCyrillic Letter Palochka U+05C0׀Hebrew Punctuation Paseq U+05D5וHebrew Letter Vav U+05DFןHebrew Letter Final Nun U+0627اArabic Letter Alef U+0661١Arabic-Indic Digit One U+06F1۱Extended Arabic-Indic Digit One U+16C1ᛁRunic Letter Isaz Is Iss I
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Nearby in Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

All in block →
U+FFE2￢Fullwidth Not Sign U+FFE3￣Fullwidth Macron U+FFE4￤Fullwidth Broken Bar U+FFE5￥Fullwidth Yen Sign U+FFE6￦Fullwidth Won Sign U+FFE9￩Halfwidth Leftwards Arrow U+FFEA￪Halfwidth Upwards Arrow U+FFEB￫Halfwidth Rightwards Arrow U+FFEC￬Halfwidth Downwards Arrow U+FFED￭Halfwidth Black Square U+FFEE￮Halfwidth White Circle