Unicode Character "‖" (U+2016)

The character ‖ (Double Vertical Line) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+2016. It is encoded in the General Punctuation 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 Double Vertical Line
Unicode Codepoint U+2016
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block General Punctuation
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

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

U+2016 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ‖
HTML (hex) ‖
HTML (named) ‖
URL Escape Code %E2%80%96
CSS \002016
JavaScript, JSON \u2016
C, C++, Java \u2016
Python \u2016
Rust \u{2016}
Ruby \u2016

How to type "‖"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 0 1 6. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 0 1 6. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x80 0x96
UTF-16 (hex) 0x2016
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00002016

References