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, paragraph, paraph, pilcrow.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The pilcrow, ¶, is a handwritten or typographical character used to identify 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 some medieval texts, it indicated a new sentence. 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 | ¶ |
| HTML named entity | ¶ |
| 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 |
| 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 |