Double Vertical Bar
Double Vertical Bar has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ⏸
- Unicode
- U+23F8
About this symbol
The pause symbol, two upright bars, comes from tape recorders and is set out with the other media controls in the international standard for symbols on equipment, IEC 60417. Unicode added it in 2014.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- DOUBLE VERTICAL BAR
- Also called
- Pause
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Technical
- Unicode group
- User interface symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 7.0 (2014)
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