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Two vertical bars, the fifth mark in the footnote sequence.
Also known as: Double vertical line, Two vertical bars in text
A pair of upright strokes side by side. Its only job is to be fifth, and it is worth a record because a reader meeting it assumes it is a mathematical parallel sign or a broken bar and finds nothing under either.
Two short vertical strokes side by side, used as the fifth reference mark in the traditional footnote sequence.
Distinct in Unicode from the mathematical parallel-to sign and from a pair of pipe characters, though the three are drawn almost identically and are constantly substituted.
Three near-identical characters with unrelated meanings.
Two short upright strokes of equal length side by side, not joined.
Parallels is the fifth mark of the sequence.