# \lVert

The ‖ symbol (Double vertical line, U+2016), written as \lVert in LaTeX math mode.

https://texform.dev/latex/symbols/lVert

## Metadata

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Topic | [Delimiters](https://texform.dev/latex/topics/delimiters) |
| Packages | ams |
| Allowed mode | math |
| Glyph | ‖ |
| Unicode | U+2016 DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE |
| Delimiter |  |

## Syntax

```latex
\lVert
```

Takes no arguments.

## Usage frequency

0.19% of formulas in the measured corpus contain this entry, rank 115 of 474 entries with frequency data.

## In TeXForm

TeXForm parses this entry as a character leaf mapped to U+2016 (DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE).