U+00A6 Broken Bar
U+00A6 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Latin-1 Supplement in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as broken vertical bar (1.0) and parted rule (in typography).
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+00A6 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The vertical bar, |, is a glyph with various uses in mathematics, computing, and typography. It has many names, often related to particular meanings: Sheffer stroke (in logic), pipe, bar, or (literally, the word "or"), vbar, and others.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 166 |
| UTF-8 | C2 A6 |
| UTF-16 | 00 A6 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 00 A6 |
| URL-Quoted | %C2%A6 |
| HTML hex reference | ¦ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ¦ |
| HTML named entity | ¦ |
| HTML named entity | ¦ |
| alias | broken vertical bar (1.0) |
| alias | parted rule (in typography) |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | CC |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP775 (hex bytes) | A7 |
| Encoding: CP850 (hex bytes) | DD |
| Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes) | DD |
| Encoding: CP857 (hex bytes) | DD |
| Encoding: CP858 (hex bytes) | DD |
| Encoding: CP863 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP864 (hex bytes) | DB |
| Encoding: CP869 (hex bytes) | 8A |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | DF |
| Encoding: CP1026 (hex bytes) | 8E |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP1250 (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: CP1251 (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 8F A2 C3 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A9 A5 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A9 A5 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 84 37 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 22 43 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 22 43 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 51 29 25 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 4F 29 25 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 22 43 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: LATIN_1 (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_7 (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_9 (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_13 (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: KOI8_T (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: KZ1048 (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: MAC_GREEK (hex bytes) | 9B |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 85 44 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 85 44 |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP1047 (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP1112 (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP1122 (hex bytes) | CC |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP1141 (hex bytes) | CC |
| Encoding: CP1142 (hex bytes) | 70 |
| Encoding: CP1143 (hex bytes) | CC |
| Encoding: CP1144 (hex bytes) | CD |
| Encoding: CP1145 (hex bytes) | 49 |
| Encoding: CP1146 (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP1147 (hex bytes) | DD |
| Encoding: CP1148 (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP1148MS (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP1149 (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | CC |
| Encoding: CP277 (hex bytes) | 70 |
| Encoding: CP278 (hex bytes) | CC |
| Encoding: CP280 (hex bytes) | CD |
| Encoding: CP284 (hex bytes) | 49 |
| Encoding: CP285 (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP297 (hex bytes) | DD |
| Encoding: CP420 (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP500MS (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP833 (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP838 (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP871 (hex bytes) | 6A |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | DF |
| LATEX | \textbrokenbar |
| AGL: Latin-1 | brokenbar |
| AGL: Latin-2 | brokenbar |
| AGL: Latin-3 | brokenbar |
| AGL: Latin-4 | brokenbar |
| AGL: Latin-5 | brokenbar |
| Adobe Glyph List | brokenbar |
| digraph | BB |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| BROKEN BAR | |
| BROKEN VERTICAL BAR | |
| Latin-1 Supplement | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Broken Bar | |
| ✘ | |
| Broken Bar | |
| Broken Bar | |
| ✘ | |
| Broken Bar | |
| Broken Bar | |
| Broken Bar | |
| Broken Bar | |
| Broken Bar | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Broken Bar | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Broken Bar | |
| Yes | |
| Broken Bar | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Broken Bar | |
| None | |
| narrow | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Broken Bar | |
| R |