U+2016 Double Vertical Line
U+2016 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block General Punctuation in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+2016 forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The vertical bar, |, is a glyph with various uses in mathematics, computing, and typography. It has many names, often related to particular meanings: Sheffer stroke (in logic), pipe, bar, or (literally, the word "or"), vbar, and others.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8214 |
| UTF-8 | E2 80 96 |
| UTF-16 | 20 16 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 20 16 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%80%96 |
| HTML hex reference | ‖ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ‖ |
| HTML named entity | ‖ |
| HTML named entity | ‖ |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 81 61 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A1 C2 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A1 C2 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A1 C2 |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | A1 AC |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A1 AC |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A1 AC |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 7E 7B 21 2C 7E 7D |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 42 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 42 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 42 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 42 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 42 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 42 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 81 61 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 81 61 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 81 61 |
| LATEX | \Vert |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni2016 |
| Adobe Glyph List | dblverticalbar |
| digraph | !2 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE | |
| DOUBLE VERTICAL BAR | |
| General Punctuation | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Double Vertical Line | |
| ✘ | |
| Double Vertical Line | |
| Double Vertical Line | |
| ✘ | |
| Double Vertical Line | |
| Double Vertical Line | |
| Double Vertical Line | |
| Double Vertical Line | |
| Double Vertical Line | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Double Vertical Line | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Double Vertical Line | |
| Yes | |
| Double Vertical Line | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Double Vertical Line | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Double Vertical Line | |
| U |