This code point first appeared in version 1.1 of the Unicode® Standard and belongs to the "General Punctuation" block which goes from 0x2000 to 0x206F.
You can safely add this character in your html code with the entity: ‖
You can use the u+2016 copy pc button below.
Easy u+2016 copy paste:
Unicode meta-data
The following table show specific meta-data that is known about this character.The u+2016 name is double vertical line emoji.
| field | value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint (hex) | 2016, u2016 |
| Character age | Unicode 1.1 |
| Legacy name (Unicode 1.0) | DOUBLE VERTICAL BAR |
| Official name (Unicode 15.0) | DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE |
| resolved name | double vertical line |
| block | General Punctuation (Punctuation) |
| common typos | u+0216, u+1206 |
There are alternative spelling that can be found in the wild for the unicode character 2016 like u 2016, (u+2016) or u +2016. You can also find u-2016, u*2016, un+2016, u2016, u=2016 or c+2016. You can also spell it with u 2016 unicode, u plus 2016, uncode 2016 or unicode + 2016.
Its bidirectional class is "ON":Other Neutrals (All other characters, including OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER)
Glyphs and symbols in your browser
The following unicode chart presents different versions of the glyph corresponding to the unicode characters u+2016 that are available on your computer.
In order to type this character easily, you may want to download and install a unicode General Punctuation keyboard.
A sample of fonts are used below to display whether the character has a glyph in this font or not.
Encodings (Unicode characters converter)
The following character table converter for +u2016 allows you to see the value of the character in different encodings
| encoding | hexadecimal | decimal | binary |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 80 96 | 14844054 | 11100010 10000000 10010110 |
| UCS2 | 16 20 | 5664 | 00010110 00100000 |
| UTF-16LE | 16 20 | 5664 | 00010110 00100000 |
| UTF-16BE | 20 16 | 8214 | 00100000 00010110 |
| UTF7 | 2B 49 42 59 2D | 185912678701 | 00101011 01001001 01000010 01011001 00101101 |
| UTF7-IMAP | 26 49 42 59 2D | 164437842221 | 00100110 01001001 01000010 01011001 00101101 |