U+00B6 Pilcrow Sign
U+00B6 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Latin-1 Supplement in the 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. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+00B6 forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “paragraph mark” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: alinea, mark, paragraph, paraph, pilcrow.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In typography, the pilcrow (¶) is a glyph used to identify a paragraph. In editorial production the pilcrow typographic character may also be known as the paragraph mark, the paragraph sign, the paragraph symbol, the paraph, and the blind P.
In writing and editorial practice, authors and editors use the pilcrow glyph to indicate the start of separate paragraphs, and to identify a new paragraph within a long block of text without paragraph indentions, as in the book An Essay on Typography (1931), by Eric Gill. In the Middle Ages, the practice of rubrication (type in red-ink) used a red pilcrow to indicate the beginning of a different train of thought within the author's narrative without paragraphs.
The typographic character of the pilcrow usually is drawn like a lowercase letter-q, reaching from the descender to the ascender height; the bowl (loop) can be filled or empty. Moreover, the pilcrow can also be drawn with the bowl extended downward, to resemble a reversed letter-D.
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 | ¶ |
| HTML named entity | ¶ |
| HTML named entity | ¶ |
| alias | paragraph sign |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP775 (hex bytes) | F4 |
| Encoding: CP850 (hex bytes) | F4 |
| Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes) | F4 |
| Encoding: CP857 (hex bytes) | F4 |
| Encoding: CP858 (hex bytes) | F4 |
| Encoding: CP863 (hex bytes) | 86 |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 81 F7 |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A2 D2 |
| Encoding: CP1026 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1250 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1251 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A2 F9 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A2 F9 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A2 F9 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A2 D2 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 85 39 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 79 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 79 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 79 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 79 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 79 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 22 79 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 22 52 0F |
| Encoding: LATIN_1 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_9 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_13 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_14 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_15 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_16 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | D9 D2 |
| Encoding: KOI8_T (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: KZ1048 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: MAC_CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: MAC_LATIN2 (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: PTCP154 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 81 F7 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 81 F7 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 81 F7 |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1047 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1112 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1122 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1141 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1142 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1143 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1144 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1145 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1146 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1147 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1148 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1148MS (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP1149 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP277 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP278 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP280 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP284 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP285 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP297 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP500MS (hex bytes) | B6 |
| Encoding: CP871 (hex bytes) | B6 |
| LATEX | \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
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| PILCROW SIGN | |
| PARAGRAPH SIGN | |
| Latin-1 Supplement | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Pilcrow Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Pilcrow Sign | |
| Pilcrow Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Pilcrow Sign | |
| Pilcrow Sign | |
| Pilcrow Sign | |
| Pilcrow Sign | |
| Pilcrow Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Pilcrow Sign | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Pilcrow Sign | |
| Yes | |
| Pilcrow Sign | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Pilcrow Sign | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Pilcrow Sign | |
| R |