Parallel To

U+2225

About Parallel To

Parallel To is the Unicode character ∥ at codepoint U+2225 in the Mathematical Operators 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 Parallel To

To use the Parallel To 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: '\2225';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2225' evaluates to ∥. In Python source, write '\u2225'.

The character encodes to E2 88 A5 as UTF-8 bytes and 2225 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8741.

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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