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U+00B6 · PILCROW SIGN

Pilcrow Sign

  • CodepointU+00B6
  • NamePILCROW SIGN
  • Decimal182
  • 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+00B6 (¶) is PILCROW 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 B62 bytes
UTF-1600B61 code unit
UTF-32000000B64 bytes
HTML named¶named character reference
HTML decimal¶
HTML hex¶
CSS\B6in content: "…"
JavaScript\u00B6
JSON\u00B6
Python\u00B6
Python\N{PILCROW SIGN}by name
Java / C#\u00B6
C / C++\u00B6universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{B6}
Go\u00B6
Ruby\u00B6
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(182)
URL-encoded%C2%B6percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+2E3F⸿Capitulum
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Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement

All in block →
U+00B0°Degree Sign U+00B1±Plus-Minus Sign U+00B2²Superscript Two U+00B3³Superscript Three U+00B4´Acute Accent U+00B5µMicro Sign U+00B7·Middle Dot U+00B8¸Cedilla U+00B9¹Superscript One U+00BAºMasculine Ordinal Indicator U+00BB»Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark U+00BC¼Vulgar Fraction One Quarter