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Technical information
| Symbol | § | |
| Name | Section sign | |
| Unicode number | U+00A7 | |
| Category | Latin-1 Supplement2. Latin-1 punctuation and symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character §, or U+00A7, is known as the "Section Sign". It is part of the "Latin-1 Supplement" block, which includes various characters used in Western European languages. This character falls under the "Symbol, Other" category. Visually, it resembles a double 's' glyph, interwoven or placed on top of each other. The Section Sign is used in legal and scholarly texts to indicate a section of a document, such as an article or law. It often introduces a numbered section or the terms of a legal code. In some regions, it is also used to mark paragraphs. The specific usage of the Section Sign can vary by language and region, but it typically denotes a distinct part of a text or document. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | § | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | § | |
| HTML Entity (named) | § | |
| URL Escape Code | %C2%A7 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xC2 0xA7 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 1100001010100111 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x00A7 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000000A7 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u00A7" | |
| CSS Code | \00A7 | |
| JavaScript | "\u00A7" | |
| Perl | \x{00A7} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u00A7" | |
| Python 3 | \u00A7 | |
| Ruby | \u{00A7} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this § in sentence and in bold like this § and in italic like this §.
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Font size:
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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select
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>§</span>
span {
content: "\00A7";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana