Double Vertical Line

U+2016
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
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Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+2016
Decimal
8214
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Punctuation (Po)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
East Asian Width
A Ambiguous
Properties
Math

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

ll U+006C U+006C

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Double Vertical Line.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
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HTML Hex
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UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 80 96
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
20 16
UTF-32 Hex
00002016
CSS Escape
\2016
JavaScript Escape
\u2016
Python Escape
\u2016
URL Encoded
%E2%80%96
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