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Technical information

Symbol|
NameFullwidth vertical line
Unicode numberU+FF5C
CategoryFullwidth ASCII variants
DescriptionThe Unicode character |, or U+FF5C, is known as the "Fullwidth Vertical Line". It falls under the "Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms" block and is categorized under "Other Punctuation" in the Unicode standard. This character is often used in East Asian typography, where it serves the same function as a vertical line (|) in English typography, but its width is that of a full character in the typesetting of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean (CJK) languages. It can be used in programming, mathematical notation, or tabular data to denote a separation or boundary between elements.

Encoding

HTML Entity|
HTML Entity (hex)|
URL Escape Code%EF%BD%9C
UTF-8 (hex)0xEF 0xBD 0x9C
UTF-8 (binary)11101111:10111101:10011100
UTF-160xFF5C
UTF-320x0000FF5C

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\uFF5C"
CSS Code\FF5C
JavaScript"\uFF5C"
Perl\x{FF5C}
Python 2u"\uFF5C"
Python 3\uFF5C
Ruby\u{FF5C}

Preview

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

Font size:

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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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100
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200
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300
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400
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500
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600
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700
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800
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900

HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
|
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#65372;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\FF5C";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana

References