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See also: | |, ǁ [U+01C1 LATIN LETTER LATERAL CLICK], ‖ ‖, ∥ [U+2225 PARALLEL TO], and ⏸ [U+23F8 DOUBLE VERTICAL BAR]
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Translingual[edit]
Description[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The caesura mark is a variant of the medieval Latin virgula (“scratch comma”).
Symbol[edit]
‖
- (literature) Used to mark caesuras.
- Hwæt! wē Gār-Dena ‖ in gēar-dagum
- (lexicography) Unnaturalised, foreign.
Usage notes[edit]
In Unicode, there are two ways to display this character:
- ‖ =
DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE
(U+2016) - || =
VERTICAL LINE
(U+007C) (twice)