"‖" U+2016 Double Vertical Line

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Character

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Unicode Data

The Unicode character U+2016, displayed as ‖ and named "Double Vertical Line" is located in the General Punctuation block. This character was introduced in Unicode version 1.1 (1993). Find its HTML entities, UTF-8/UTF-16 encodings, hex values, and copy-paste details below.

Name:: Double Vertical Line
Category:: Other Punctuation
Block:: General Punctuation
Script:: Common
Bidirectional:: Other Neutrals
Mirrored:: No
Unicode Version:: Unicode 1.1

Character Encodings

HTML Entity - Named:

&Verbar;

&Vert;

HTML Entity - Decimal:

‖

HTML Entity - Hex:

‖

Unicode:

U+2016;

Decimal:

8214

CSS:

\002016

Javascript:

\u2016

Perl:

\x{2016}

Ruby:

\u{2016}

Python:

u'\u2016'

UTF-8 Encoding:

E28096

UTF-16 Encoding:

2016

UTF-32 Encoding:

00002016