U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN: ¶ – Unicode

U+00B6 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0080 to U+00FF Latin-1 Supplement in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as paragraph sign.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+00B6 behaves as Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The CLDR project labels this character “paragraph mark” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: alinea, paragraph, paragraph mark, paraph, pilcrow.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The pilcrow, ¶, is a typographical character that marks the start of a paragraph. It is also called the paragraph mark (or sign or symbol), paraph, or blind P.
The pilcrow may be used at the start of separate paragraphs or to designate a new paragraph in one long piece of copy, as Eric Gill did in his 1931 book An Essay on Typography. The pilcrow was a type of rubrication used in the Middle Ages to mark a new train of thought, before the convention of visually discrete paragraphs was commonplace.
In recent times, the symbol has been given a wider variety of roles, as listed below.
The pilcrow is usually drawn similarly to a lowercase q reaching from descender to ascender height; the bowl (loop) can be filled or unfilled. It may also be drawn with the bowl stretching further downwards, resembling a reversed D; this is more often seen in older printing.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	182
UTF-8	C2 B6
UTF-16	00 B6
UTF-32	00 00 00 B6
URL-Quoted	%C2%B6
HTML hex reference	¶
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	Â¶
HTML named entity	&para
HTML named entity	¶
alias	paragraph sign
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes)	A2 D2
Encoding: ISO-8859-13 (hex bytes)	B6
Encoding: ISO-8859-14 (hex bytes)	B6
Encoding: ISO-8859-15 (hex bytes)	B6
Encoding: ISO-8859-16 (hex bytes)	B6
Encoding: ISO-8859-8 (hex bytes)	B6
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes)	A2 F9
Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes)	A6
Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes)	B6
Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes)	B6
Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes)	B6
Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes)	B6
Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes)	B6
Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes)	B6
Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes)	B6
Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes)	B6
Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes)	B6
Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes)	A6
L^AT_EX	\textparagraph
AGL: Latin-1	paragraph
AGL: Latin-2	paragraph
AGL: Latin-3	paragraph
AGL: Latin-4	paragraph
AGL: Latin-5	paragraph
Adobe Glyph List	paragraph
digraph	PI

Related Characters

Confusables

Capitulum

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Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	PILCROW SIGN
Unicode 1 Name	PARAGRAPH SIGN
Block	Latin-1 Supplement
General Category	Other Punctuation
Script	Common
Bidirectional Category	Other Neutral
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Pilcrow Sign
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Pilcrow Sign
Lowercase Mapping	Pilcrow Sign
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Pilcrow Sign
Uppercase Mapping	Pilcrow Sign
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Pilcrow Sign
Titlecase Mapping	Pilcrow Sign
Case Folding	Pilcrow Sign
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✘
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✘
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	Pilcrow Sign
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✘
ID Start	✘
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Pilcrow Sign
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✔
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Other
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Other
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✘
XID Start	✘
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Pilcrow Sign
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Pilcrow Sign
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	R

U+00B6 Pilcrow Sign

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