See also: ∣ [U+2223 DIVIDES],
׀ [U+05C0 HEBREW PUNCTUATION PASEQ],
ǀ [U+01C0 LATIN LETTER DENTAL CLICK],
丨 [U+4E28 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E28],
𐩽 [U+10A7D OLD SOUTH ARABIAN NUMBER ONE], and Appendix:Variations of vertical lines
Translingual
Description
A vertical line.
Symbol
| (English symbol name vertical bar or vertical line or pipe or pipe key)
- (logic) The Sheffer stroke: joins two statements of which not both are true (nand).
- Synonym: ⊼
- (mathematics) Such that; having the property that.
- Synonym: :

- 2006, K. Chung et al., Bifurcation analysis of a two-degree-of-freedom aeroelastic system with freeplay structural nonlinearity by a perturbation-incremental method, Journal of Sound and Vibration.
- According to the three linear branches of the bilinear function for a freeplay model, the phase space
can be divided into three regions,
, where each corresponds to a linear system:
in 
- (mathematics, of a function) Restricted to.
for any
.
- (mathematics, of an expression) Evaluated at.

- (statistics) Conditional probability.
― the conditional probability of X given Y
- A tally mark representing one.
- Coordinate term: 𝍸 (“five”)
The number 6 can be represented as ||||||.
2005 May 16, Tony, “Re: what do you call the prisoners' counting numerals?”, in alt.usage.english[1] (Usenet; in English), message-ID <[email protected]>:
- If I was counting screws, for example, and using the tally mark system, I'd lay out the list:
- Phillips head, 1/2" |||
- Phillips head, 3/4" ||
- Phillips head, 1" ||||
- (linguistics) Separates elements of a word.
2012, István Tótfalusi, Sertések a Bakonyban: kalandos nyelvtörténet [Pigs in the Bakony: An Adventurous History of Language] (quotation in Hungarian; overall work in Hungarian), Budapest: Libri Publishing Hungary, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, (HU-BpBKP)bkp121012591, page 75:Mármost a ragok és képzők többnyire kétalakúak, hogy a mély hangrendű szóhoz mélyet és magashoz magasat lehessen tenni. Ezért azt mondjuk, hogy kép | es | ség | ei | vel, illetve hogy ad | ós | ság | ai | val. Így nyilván mindenki ráismer erre a harmóniára.- Now, the suffixes and derivational affixes generally have two forms, so that a low-vowel word can take a low-vowel suffix and a high-vowel word can take a high-vowel suffix. This is why we say "kép | es | ség | ei | vel" [with his/her abilities] and "ad | ós | ság | ai | val" [with his/her debts]. Thus, it is clear that everyone recognizes this harmony.
|
For IPA use, the symbol may be made heavy to distinguish it from the dental click ⟨ǀ⟩. |
- (IPA, boldface) Marks a minor prosodic break, anything from a metrical foot to the end of a continuing prosodic unit, depending on context.
- Coordinate term: ‖
- (computing) Used as a pipe in Unix.
- (programming) Used in some programming languages as the "bitwise or" operator.
- Coordinate terms: &, ^
- (regular expressions) Metacharacter that matches either the expression before or the expression after.
abc|def
matches "abc" or "def".
- (music) A pointing mark in Anglican chant, which marks a place in the text where a barline occurs in the chant.
- Synonym: '
- Coordinate terms: :, *, ⋅, —, ‖, †
- (Internet, rare) Used in email, Usenet, and some forums to indent the quoted message being replied to.
- Synonym: >
2003 January 21, Jugoslav Dujic, “Re: Using common DLL routines...”, in comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32[2] (Usenet; in English):| Thanks, Barry. I was able to achieve run time linking by using your example as
| a model, although, 1) I don't entirely understand the use of typedef, etc.,
| and,
1) From the viewpoint of just occasional user of C(++): I think that syntax of pointers-to-functions is just plain ugly, tough to remember and tough to comprehend.
- (Internet slang) In a title, separates related but distinct pieces of information.
- Synonym: //
"The Wedding – Part 1" | Guilds of Arcadia | S04E20 | Full episode
Usage notes
The IPA symbol is intended to be typeset in bold typeface, and is presented that way in the official IPA symbol charts.
See also