html-entity

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HTML named character reference | maps to U+007C.

Mapping

Named reference
|
Code point(s)
U+007C
Decimal
124
Characters
|

Numeric character references

Named
Decimal
Hex

Usage

Prefer a named reference when the character must survive encoding mistakes or is awkward to type. Numeric references (|) are always valid HTML for the mapped code point(s).

Related

Source

Unicode
16.0.0
WHATWG
snapshot 2026-08-02