Unicode Character "¦" (U+00A6)

The character ¦ (Broken Bar) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+00A6. It is encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ¦.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Broken Bar
Unicode Codepoint U+00A6
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Symbol
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+00A6 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ¦
HTML (hex) ¦
HTML (named) ¦
URL Escape Code %C2%A6
CSS \0000A6
JavaScript, JSON \u00A6
C, C++, Java \u00A6
Python \u00A6
Rust \u{00A6}
Ruby \u00A6

How to type "¦"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 0 A 6. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 0 A 6. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ¦
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ¦
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ¦
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0xA6
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00A6
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000A6

Characters based on "¦" (U+00A6)

References