Halfwidth Light Vertical Line

Use a character picker or Unicode lookup. Search for U+FFE8; in source code, use the Unicode escape supported by your language or tool.

An earlier setting for this kind of narrow line was Japan’s 1969 JIS X 0201, a fixed-width character set for exchanging Japanese text. A later IBM Code Page 897 mapping carried a corresponding line graphic in its C0 replacement area. Unicode preserves ￨ as a narrow compatibility form related to │.

What does ￨ mean when someone sends it?

It usually marks layout, not a message by itself. Read a lone ￨ as a narrow stroke; inside a divider or text drawing, its width helps align the design.

A 2013 Clip Studio support thread records a drawing workaround: set two copies close together to make one longer vertical rule. That example is a layout fix, not evidence of a general chat convention.

Use ￨ only when its width matters

For a standard box-drawing line, use │; for a full CJK-width cell, use ｜; | is the ASCII pipe. Their different widths can shift columns.

Unicode normalization can map compatibility characters to their underlying forms and erase width distinctions. Avoid ￨ in identifiers or protocol tokens unless a format requires it.