About Double Vertical Bar
Double Vertical Bar is the Unicode character ⏸ at codepoint U+23F8 in the Miscellaneous Technical block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Developer Notes
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How to Use Double Vertical Bar
To use the Double 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: '\23F8';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u23F8' evaluates to ⏸. In Python source, write '\u23F8'.
The character encodes to E2 8F B8 as UTF-8 bytes and 23F8 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9208.
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.