Light Vertical Bar ❘
Symbol Meaning
This icon depicts a vertically standing bar. THe dingbat is done with a thin black line and it's devoid of any complementary elements. This typographical sign is often applied in writing to divide blocks of information in various texts.
When necessary, symbol U+2758 is used in type ornaments, frames, or when it's necessary to break up paragraphs into parts. Most often this vertical bar is combined with other dingbats from earlier versions of Unicode. You might find the following symbols extremely useful: check out fraction slash ⁄ , a graphic image of four bars ⊫ , and a two-headed arrow with double vertical stroke ⤁ .
The symbol “Light Vertical Bar” is included in the “Miscellaneous” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Light Vertical Bar |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | ❘ |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Miscellaneous |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2758 |
| Simple case change | 2758 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9D 98 | 226 157 152 | 14851480 | 11100010 10011101 10011000 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 58 | 39 88 | 10072 | 00100111 01011000 |
| UTF-16LE | 58 27 | 88 39 | 22567 | 01011000 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 58 | 0 0 39 88 | 10072 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 01011000 |
| UTF-32LE | 58 27 00 00 | 88 39 0 0 | 1478950912 | 01011000 00100111 00000000 00000000 |