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:

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

CSS Property: font-weight

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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

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

References