U+275A "❚" Heavy Vertical Bar Unicode Character

U+275A "❚" Heavy Vertical Bar is a typographic symbol that visually represents a thick, solid vertical line, often used in digital interfaces, text formatting, or as a decorative separator to create clear visual boundaries between content sections. This character belongs to the Dingbats block in the Unicode standard, where it is encoded as a distinct glyph separate from regular punctuation, allowing it to be consistently rendered across different systems and fonts for purposes such as indicating progress, dividing lists, or enhancing the layout of plain text documents without relying on images or complex formatting codes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+275A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Heavy 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 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x275A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000275A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u275a

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