‖

See also: | |, ǁ [U+01C1 LATIN LETTER LATERAL CLICK], ‖ ‖, ∥ [U+2225 PARALLEL TO], and ⏸ [U+23F8 DOUBLE VERTICAL BAR]

‖ U+2016, ‖ DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE ← ― [U+2015] General Punctuation ‗ → [U+2017]

Translingual

Description

Two parallel vertical lines.

Etymology

The caesura mark is a variant of the medieval Latin virgula (“scratch comma”).

Symbol

‖

1. (literature) Used to mark caesuras.

   Hwæt! wē Gār-Dena ‖ in gēar-dagum

2. (lexicography) Unnaturalised, foreign.

Usage notes

In Unicode, there are two ways to display this character:

• ‖ = DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE (U+2016)
• || = VERTICAL LINE (U+007C) (twice)

See also

• See ∥ for the parallel line symbol.
• See ⏸ for the pause symbol.
• See | | for single vertical lines enclosing other characters.
• See ‖ ‖ for caesuras (pairs of vertical lines) enclosing other characters.
• See ǁ for the IPA character denoting a click consonant