How do I type the ￤ fullwidth broken bar symbol?

On Windows, type FFE4 and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then ffe4. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.

What is the code for ￤?

Fullwidth Broken Bar is U+FFE4. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.

Will ￤ survive being pasted anywhere?

Not always. Fullwidth Broken Bar is a compatibility character: any system that applies Unicode NFKC normalisation — search indexes, usernames, identifiers — replaces it with ¦. Use it for display, not where text is normalised.

U+FFE4 · Other symbol

Fullwidth Broken Bar Symbol ￤

￤ is fullwidth broken bar, U+FFE4. Unicode records it as a compatibility form of ¦ (wide form). It was added in Unicode 1.1, and Unicode files it under Other symbol.

Also known as

Unicode 1.0 called this character fullwidth broken vertical bar. The standard renamed it later, but documents, fonts and font-editing tools from that era still use the old name.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+FFE4`
HTML hex	`￤`
HTML decimal	`￤`
CSS	`\FFE4`
JavaScript	`\u{FFE4}`
Python	`\U0000FFE4`
Java / C#	`\uFFE4`
Rust	`\u{ffe4}`
Swift	`\u{FFE4}`
PHP	`\u{FFE4}`
URL encoded	`%EF%BF%A4`
UTF-8 bytes	`EF BF A4`
UTF-16 bytes	`FFE4`
Base64	`77+k`
Decimal	`65508`
Decomposes to	¦ (wide form)
Category	Other symbol (So)
Introduced	Unicode 1.1

Will ￤ survive being pasted?

Normalisation. No. Anything that applies NFKC — search indexes, usernames, domain names, programming identifiers — rewrites ￤ as ¦. Safe for display, not for storage.
Legacy encodings. ￤ is Unicode-only — it has no Latin-1 equivalent, so a system stuck on an 8-bit encoding cannot represent it.
Size. 3 bytes in UTF-8. Character-limited fields — SMS, bios, some form validators — usually count bytes, not characters.

Other bar characters

Unicode names 24 characters ending in “bar”. They differ by direction, weight or decoration rather than by meaning.

Nearby in Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

Latin characters at the width of a CJK ideograph, and katakana at half width — a compatibility block for legacy East Asian encodings. Fullwidth text is often used online for a spaced-out aesthetic; it normalises straight back to ASCII.

All 53 characters in Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms →

How to type ￤

Windows	Type `FFE4` then press `Alt`+`X`
macOS	Press `Ctrl`+`Cmd`+`Space`, then search for “fullwidth broken bar”
Linux	Press `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`U`, type `ffe4`, press `Enter`
HTML	`￤`

About Unicode’s Other symbol category

Unicode files this under "other symbol" — the catch-all for pictographs, signs and marks that are neither maths, currency, nor letter-like. It is the largest symbol category in the standard.

Frequently asked questions

How do I type the ￤ fullwidth broken bar symbol?: On Windows, type FFE4 and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then ffe4. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
What is the code for ￤?: Fullwidth Broken Bar is U+FFE4. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
Will ￤ survive being pasted anywhere?: Not always. Fullwidth Broken Bar is a compatibility character: any system that applies Unicode NFKC normalisation — search indexes, usernames, identifiers — replaces it with ¦. Use it for display, not where text is normalised.