Vertical Line
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 124 on the numeric keypad to insert vertical line.
- Alt code
- Alt+124
- HTML entity
- |
- Unicode
- U+007C
About this symbol
The vertical bar became the pipe of Unix in 1973, when Ken Thompson added Doug McIlroy’s idea of sending the output of one program straight into the next, as in ls | sort. In maths |x| is the absolute value of x.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- VERTICAL LINE
- Also called
- Vertical bar, pipe
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Used in pairs to indicate absolute value
- Also used as an unpaired separator or as a fence
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.