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fullwidth broken bar

Fullwidth Broken Bar

Enter ￤ with your editor’s Unicode input for U+FFE4; some Japanese legacy conversions can also produce it from FA55. This fullwidth broken bar keeps the mark in a wide character cell in older mixed-width text. It is related to narrow broken bar ¦, while the solid pipe | is a different character.

Text symbol
Also called
fullwidth broken vertical bar
Search it as
U+FFE4 · FA55 · CP932 · EUC-JP · zenkaku broken bar · broken bar vs pipe · wide broken bar
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ￤ means

Use your editor’s Unicode input for U+FFE4.

A Japanese legacy conversion can also produce ￤ from the double-byte value FA55; conversion tables do not all map related bytes the same way.

Why was a wide broken bar encoded?

It keeps the broken bar in a wide character cell.

Older mixed-width East Asian text systems placed characters in one-cell or two-cell spaces so lines could align. Unicode 1.1 lists ￤ as a wide form of ¦, with its earliest clear record in 1993.

The Japanese JIS X 0213 character set, documented in 2000, places the related broken-bar entry at row 9, cell 5. Windows CP932 uses the extended double-byte value FA55 for ￤, while other Japanese conversion tables can map related bytes to ¦. These are encoding differences, not separate bar meanings.

Technical and archival: it preserves width in legacy text where character-cell alignment matters.

Do not substitute it for the solid programming pipe |.

Don't confuse it with

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|
Vertical Line
The solid vertical line is used as a programming pipe. Its stroke has no break, and it is a different character.
｜
Fullwidth Vertical Line
The fullwidth vertical line is solid. It occupies a wide cell too, but its stroke is unbroken.

Questions people ask

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Why does ￤ become ¦?

Compatibility normalization NFKC or NFKD folds the width distinction and produces ¦. Preserve the original text or use NFC when that distinction matters.

Why does ￤ look different in different fonts?

Fullwidth describes its character-cell behavior, not one fixed outline. Fonts can draw the break at different heights or proportions while showing the same character.

How to type ￤

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType FFE4, then Alt+X to get ￤.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “fullwidth broken bar”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType ffe4, then Enter or Space.
HTML
￤
CSS
\FFE4
Unicode input
Use your editor’s Unicode-entry command and enter U+FFE4; the shortcut varies by application.
Japanese legacy import
Check CP932 and EUC-JP conversions: some tables map double-byte FA55 to ￤, while others can yield ¦ from related bytes.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
￤
HTML hex
￤
CSS content
content: "\FFE4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EF%BF%A4
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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