U+FFE4 "" Fullwidth Broken Bar Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

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
Name
Fullwidth Broken Bar
Unicode 1.0 Name
Fullwidth Broken Vertical Bar
Decomposition Mapping

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
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UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xBF 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFFE4
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FFE4
C/C++/Java Escape
\uffe4