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Technical information

Symbol	¦
Name	Broken bar
Unicode number	U+00A6
Category	Latin-1 Supplement 2. Latin-1 punctuation and symbols

Description

The Unicode character ¦, or U+00A6, is known as the "Broken Bar". It is part of the "Latin-1 Supplement" block, which includes various characters used in Western European languages. This character falls under the "Symbol, Other" category. Visually, it resembles the vertical line '|' with a gap in the middle, hence its name. The Broken Bar is used in a variety of contexts. In computing, it was originally intended as an alternate representation of the pipe character in environments where a continuous vertical bar might be visually ambiguous. However, it is less commonly used in modern systems. In other fields such as mathematics, it can be used as a specialized symbol depending on the specific notation system. As with other characters, the specific usage of the Broken Bar can depend on its context.

Encoding

HTML Entity	¦
HTML Entity (hex)	¦
HTML Entity (named)	¦
URL Escape Code	%C2%A6
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC2 0xA6
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001010100110
UTF-16	0x00A6
UTF-32	0x000000A6

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00A6"
CSS Code	\00A6
JavaScript	"\u00A6"
Perl	\x{00A6}
Python 2	u"\u00A6"
Python 3	\u00A6
Ruby	\u{00A6}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ¦ in sentence and in bold like this ¦ and in italic like this ¦.

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#166;</span>

span {
    content: "\00A6";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system

Apple Color Emoji

Arial

BlinkMacSystemFont

Courier New

Georgia

Droid Sans

Helvetica

Noto Sans

Oxygen

Roboto

"Segoe UI"

sans-serif

Segoe UI Emoji

Segoe UI Symbol

system-ui

Times New Roman

Ubuntu

Verdana

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