Music notation glossary · Further signs
Barline
the boundary between two bars
As a Unicode character — to paste into text, spreadsheets or chat. Whether it appears depends on the font.
In the score
What it means
A vertical line through the staff. It also cancels every accidental set in the previous bar.
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