Double Vertical Line
Group: Punctuation
Keywords
About this character
Double Vertical Line belongs to the Punctuation group and is encoded at U+2016. It was added in Unicode 0.0.
Shortcode
Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.
Technical codes
- Code point
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U+2016 - Hex
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2016 - Decimal
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8214 - HTML
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‖ - CSS
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\2016 - JavaScript
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\u2016 - Python
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\u2016 - UTF-8
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E2 80 96
The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.