Box Drawings Double Vertical

Part of Box Drawing Characters

On Windows, hold Alt and type 186 on the numeric keypad to insert box drawings double vertical.

Alt code
Alt+186
HTML entity
║
Unicode
U+2551

About this symbol

║, the double vertical line, is Alt+186, one of the double-line box-drawing pieces of the IBM PC’s character set, used for the sides of window frames in DOS programs.

Unicode facts

Official name
BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE VERTICAL
Type
Symbol
Unicode block
Box Drawing
Unicode group
Double lines
Added in
Unicode 1.1 (1993)

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