U+20E6 "⃦" Combining Double Vertical Stroke Overlay Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⃦
U+20E6 "⃦" Combining Double Vertical Stroke Overlay is a combining diacritical mark designed to be placed over a preceding base character, where it applies two parallel vertical lines through the center of that character as a visual overlay. This mark is rarely used in standard text and primarily serves specialized purposes, such as in linguistic or phonetic notation to indicate a specific modification or cancellation of a sound, or in cryptographic or medieval manuscript studies where it might denote deletion, correction, or emphasis. It belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols block and is intended for use with a wide range of base glyphs, though its practical application remains niche and technical.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20E6 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Combining Double Vertical Stroke Overlay |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Overlay |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⃦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⃦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x83 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20E6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020E6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20e6 |