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
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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.