Double Vertical Line Double Vertical Bar

U+2016

About Double Vertical Line Double Vertical Bar

Double Vertical Line Double Vertical Bar is the Unicode character ‖ at codepoint U+2016 in the General Punctuation block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Technical Reference

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

How to Use Double Vertical Line Double Vertical Bar

To use the Double Vertical Line 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: '\2016';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2016' evaluates to ‖. In Python source, write '\u2016'.

The character encodes to E2 80 96 as UTF-8 bytes and 2016 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8214.

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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