Broken Bar Broken Vertical Bar

U+00A6

Broken Bar Broken Vertical Bar is the Unicode character ¦ at codepoint U+00A6 in the Latin-1 Supplement block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.

Technical Reference

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Broken Bar Broken Vertical Bar

To use the Broken Bar Broken Vertical Bar symbol (¦) in HTML, insert the entity ¦ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ¦ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\A6';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u00A6' evaluates to ¦. In Python source, write '\u00A6'.

The character encodes to C2 A6 as UTF-8 bytes and 00A6 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 166.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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Last updated on 5 May 2026