What ❙ means
It is the medium bar in a three-weight set. is lighter and is heavier; the names describe the stroke thickness.
Is ❙ a pipe?
No. ❙ and are different characters. The ASCII pipe has programming uses; ❙ comes from Zapf Dingbats, a decorative typeface. In 2002, Unicode proposed separate to join segments and make vertical arrows taller; the trio was not intended for that job.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
3
Vertical Line
The ASCII pipe is a different character with programming uses; ❙ is a medium-weight decorative bar.
Black Vertical Rectangle
▮ is a solid rectangle shape; ❙ is a narrower bar meant as a separator.
Box Drawings Light Vertical
│ is a thin box-drawing line that joins other lines; ❙ is a standalone, thicker bar.
Related characters
3
Combination ideas
3Separates menu links.
Pause sign made from two bars.
Bar accent in front of a heading.
Questions people ask
1Why does ❙ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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Collections with ❙
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How to type or find ❙
- Search it as
- vertical bar symbol · medium bar · thick vertical line · pipe character · ornamental bar
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
❙CSS
\2759Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
❙
HTML hex
❙
CSS content
content: "\2759";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9D%99
1
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.