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U+00A7 · SECTION SIGN

Section Sign

  • CodepointU+00A7
  • NameSECTION SIGN
  • Decimal167
  • BlockLatin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+00A7 (§) is SECTION SIGN, a punctuation mark in the Latin-1 Supplement block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type §

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C2 A72 bytes
UTF-1600A71 code unit
UTF-32000000A74 bytes
HTML named§named character reference
HTML decimal§
HTML hex§
CSS\A7in content: "…"
JavaScript\u00A7
JSON\u00A7
Python\u00A7
Python\N{SECTION SIGN}by name
Java / C#\u00A7
C / C++\u00A7universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{A7}
Go\u00A7
Ruby\u00A7
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(167)
URL-encoded%C2%A7percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement

All in block →
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