U+00A6 "¦" Broken Bar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+00A6 "¦" Broken Bar is a typographical symbol that resembles a vertical line with a small gap or break in its middle, distinguishing it from the solid vertical bar or pipe character. Historically derived from earlier computer and typewriter character sets, it often serves as a stylistic variant in text, particularly in some European languages and in contexts like text formatting, where it may indicate a logical or semantic separation without the solid continuity of a standard vertical bar. Its usage has largely declined in modern computing, though it remains available in Unicode for legacy support and specialized applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00A6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Broken Bar |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Broken Vertical Bar |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ¦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ¦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00A6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000A6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00a6 |