Technical information

Symbol
NamePilcrow sign
Unicode numberU+00B6
CategoryLatin-1 Supplement2. Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character ¶, or U+00B6, is known as the "Pilcrow Sign". It belongs to 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 stylized, open double-P, representing the two 'C's of the Latin term for paragraph, "caput capituli". The Pilcrow Sign is commonly used in writing and publishing as a symbol to indicate a new paragraph or section. It is especially useful in legal and academic texts, where individual sections or clauses within a piece of writing may need to be identified separately. The Pilcrow Sign is also used in proofreading and editing work to mark points where a new paragraph should be inserted. In digital formats, it's often used to denote carriage returns (when a paragraph ends) especially in word processing software.

Encoding

HTML Entity¶
HTML Entity (hex)¶
HTML Entity (named)
URL Escape Code%C2%B6
UTF-8 (hex)0xC2 0xB6
UTF-8 (binary)1100001010110110
UTF-160x00B6
UTF-320x000000B6

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u00B6"
CSS Code\00B6
JavaScript"\u00B6"
Perl\x{00B6}
Python 2u"\u00B6"
Python 3\u00B6
Ruby\u{00B6}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ¶ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

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CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#182;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\00B6";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References