U+2759 "❙" Medium Vertical Bar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
❙
U+2759 "❙" Medium Vertical Bar is a graphic symbol that represents a medium weight vertical line, distinct from other vertical bar characters like the thin vertical line or the heavier bar variants. It is often used in typographic contexts for creating visual separators, drawing diagrams, or constructing decorative borders and partitions in text. As part of the Dingbats block in Unicode, this character serves as a stylistic element for emphasizing structure or alignment in plain text without relying on font-specific graphics. Its medium thickness provides a balanced visual weight that works well in lists, tables, or as a framing device in simple ASCII or Unicode art.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2759 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Medium Vertical Bar |
| Block | Dingbats |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ❙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ❙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x9D 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2759 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002759 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2759 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |