U+2016 "‖" Double Vertical Line Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2016 "‖" Double Vertical Line is a punctuation mark consisting of two parallel vertical strokes, distinct from the vertical line or pipe character (|), and is primarily used in various contexts to denote parallelism in mathematics and logic, to indicate a norm in vector analysis, or in linguistics to represent a prosodic or major break in phonemic transcription. In typography, it often serves as a visual separator or ditto mark in tables, and it is also found in notation systems for chord diagrams or as a symbol for parallel lines in geometry.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2016 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Double Vertical Line |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Double Vertical Bar |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ‖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ‖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x80 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2016 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002016 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2016 |