U+2016 "" Double Vertical Line Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

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
Name
Double Vertical Line
Unicode 1.0 Name
Double Vertical Bar

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
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UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x80 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2016
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002016
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2016