This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+29B6 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
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 (click value to copy)
Nº
10678
UTF-8
E2 A6 B6
UTF-16
29 B6
UTF-32
00 00 29 B6
URL-Quoted
%E2%A6%B6
HTML hex reference
⦶
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
⦶
HTML named entity
⦶
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 38 83 32
LATEX
\ElsevierGlyph{E61B}
RFC 5137
\u'29B6'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u29B6
C and C++
\u29B6
C#
\u29B6
CSS
\0029B6
Excel
=UNICHAR(10678)
Go
\u29B6
JavaScript
\u29B6
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{29b6}
JSON
\u29B6
Java
\u29B6
Lua
\u{29B6}
Matlab
char(10678)
Perl
"\x{29B6}"
PHP
\u{29b6}
PostgreSQL
U&'\29B6'
PowerShell
`u{29B6}
Python
\u29B6
Ruby
\u{29b6}
Rust
\u{29b6}
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