U+FFE4 "￤" Fullwidth Broken Bar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
￤
U+FFE4 "￤" Fullwidth Broken Bar is a typographic variant of the standard broken bar character, designed specifically for use in East Asian scripts where characters occupy a fullwidth horizontal space to align with the monospaced grid of CJK text. It serves as the fullwidth counterpart to the regular broken bar (U+00A6), maintaining a similar vertical interrupted line shape but with a width and height that match the dimensions of other fullwidth punctuation and symbols. This character is rarely used in everyday writing but can appear in legacy data or specialized contexts where consistent visual alignment within a fixed-width character cell is required, such as in older terminal interfaces or certain East Asian encoding systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FFE4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Fullwidth Broken Bar |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Fullwidth Broken Vertical Bar |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Wide |
| Decomposition Mapping | "¦" U+00A6 Broken Bar |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ￤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ￤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBF 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFFE4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FFE4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uffe4 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Fullwidth |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "¦" U+00A6 Broken Bar |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "¦" U+00A6 Broken Bar |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |