Double Vertical Bar

U+23F8

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

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

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.

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