Vertical double line
The vertical double bar is a character with several meanings and is therefore coded in several places in the Unicode standard in order to e.g. B. to be able to assign different glyphs.
| Unicode block | Unicode number | Characters (400%) |
category | Bidirectional class | Official name | description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General punctuation | U + 2016 (8214) | ‖ | other punctuation | other neutral sign | DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE | Double vertical line |
| Latin, extended-B | U + 01C1 (449) | ǁ | other letter, syllable or ideogram | from left to right | LATIN LETTER LATERAL CLICK | Latin letter alveolar lateral click , a character in the International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA ) |
| Combining diacritical marks for symbols | U + 20E6 (8422) | ⃦ | Marking without extra width |
Marking without extra width |
COMBINING DOUBLE VERTICAL STROKE OVERLAY | Combining enclosing vertical double line |
| Mathematical operators | U + 2225 (8741) | ∥ | math symbol | other neutral sign | PARALLEL TO | Mathematical sign: "Parallel to" |
| Frame drawing | U + 2551 (9553) | ║ | different symbol | other neutral sign | BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE VERTICAL | Frame element double top-bottom |