Unicode Character "‖" U+2016 Double Vertical Line

Unicode Version 15.1

Summary

The unicode character "‖" at code point U+2016 is Double Vertical Line. It is a character in the General Punctuation block and is part of the Common script. The character is an other punctuation. The UTF-8 encoding of "‖" is 0xE2 0x80 0x96 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x2016.

General Properties

Code Point U+2016
Version Added 1.1
Name Double Vertical Line
Unicode 1.0 Name Double Vertical Bar
Block General Punctuation
General Category Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Entity ‖
‖
HTML Decimal Encoding ‖
HTML Hex Encoding ‖
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0x80 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2016
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002016
C/C++/Java Escape \u2016

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Pattern Syntax Yes
Math Yes
Other Math Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other