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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Character used to denote a paragraph (¶)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the typographical mark. For the novel, see <a href="/wiki/Pilcrow_(novel)" title="Pilcrow (novel)"><i>Pilcrow</i> (novel)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Paragraph mark" redirects here. For the symbol §, sometimes used as a paragraph mark, see <a href="/wiki/Section_sign" title="Section sign">Section sign</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Paragraph_separator" class="mw-redirect" title="Paragraph separator">Paragraph separator</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox" style="max-width:20em;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="background: #ccc; font-size: 500%; line-height:1.3; font-weight:normal; font-family:'times new roman', times, georgia, serif, sans-serif;">¶</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ccc;"><div style="background: #ccc; font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold; padding: 0.1em 0.25em 0.2em; line-height: 1.2em;">Pilcrow</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">In <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><span class="monospaced">U+00B6</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">¶</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">PILCROW SIGN</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">&para;</span>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ccc;">Different from</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Different from</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+00A7</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">§</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'"><a href="/wiki/Section_sign" title="Section sign">SECTION SIGN</a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ccc;">Related</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">See also</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+204B</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">⁋</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">REVERSED PILCROW SIGN</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+2761</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">❡</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">CURVED STEM PARAGRAPH SIGN ORNAMENT</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+2E3F</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">⸿</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">CAPITULUM</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+2E4D</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">⹍</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">PARAGRAPHUS MARK</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pilcrow_sign_in_fonts_Helvetica_Arial_Consolas_Garamond_Baskerville_Palatino_Gentium.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Pilcrow_sign_in_fonts_Helvetica_Arial_Consolas_Garamond_Baskerville_Palatino_Gentium.svg/330px-Pilcrow_sign_in_fonts_Helvetica_Arial_Consolas_Garamond_Baskerville_Palatino_Gentium.svg.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Pilcrow_sign_in_fonts_Helvetica_Arial_Consolas_Garamond_Baskerville_Palatino_Gentium.svg/495px-Pilcrow_sign_in_fonts_Helvetica_Arial_Consolas_Garamond_Baskerville_Palatino_Gentium.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Pilcrow_sign_in_fonts_Helvetica_Arial_Consolas_Garamond_Baskerville_Palatino_Gentium.svg/660px-Pilcrow_sign_in_fonts_Helvetica_Arial_Consolas_Garamond_Baskerville_Palatino_Gentium.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="506" data-file-height="112" /></a><figcaption>Pilcrow in typefaces: <a href="/wiki/Neue_Helvetica" class="mw-redirect" title="Neue Helvetica">Neue Helvetica</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arial" title="Arial">Arial</a>, <a href="/wiki/Consolas" title="Consolas">Consolas</a>, Adobe <a href="/wiki/Garamond_(typeface)" class="mw-redirect" title="Garamond (typeface)">Garamond</a> Pro, <a href="/wiki/Baskerville_(typeface)" class="mw-redirect" title="Baskerville (typeface)">Baskerville</a> Old Face, <a href="/wiki/Palatino_Linotype" class="mw-redirect" title="Palatino Linotype">Palatino Linotype</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Gentium" title="Gentium">Gentium</a> Plus</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><div class="side-box metadata side-box-right noprint selfref"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><b>This page uses notation for orthographic or other linguistic analysis.</b> For the meaning of how <span class="nowrap"><code>⟨ ⟩</code>, <code>| |</code>,</span> <span class="nowrap"><code>/ /</code>, and <code>[ ]</code></span> <span class="nowrap">are used here,</span> see <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet#Brackets_and_transcription_delimiters" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">this page</a>.</div></div> </div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Typography" title="Typography">typography</a>, the <b>pilcrow</b> (<b>¶</b>) is a <a href="/wiki/Glyph" title="Glyph">glyph</a> used to identify a <a href="/wiki/Paragraph" title="Paragraph">paragraph</a>. In editorial production the <i>pilcrow</i> typographic character may also be known as the <b>paragraph mark</b>, the <b>paragraph sign</b>, the <b>paragraph symbol</b>, the <b>paraph</b>, and the <b>blind P</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-style_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-style-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In writing and editorial practice, authors and editors use the pilcrow glyph to indicate the start of separate <a href="/wiki/Paragraphs" class="mw-redirect" title="Paragraphs">paragraphs</a>, and to identify a new paragraph within a long block of text without paragraph indentions, as in the book <i>An Essay on Typography</i> (1931), by <a href="/wiki/Eric_Gill" title="Eric Gill">Eric Gill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>, the practice of <a href="/wiki/Rubrication" title="Rubrication">rubrication</a> (type in red-ink) used a red pilcrow to indicate the beginning of a different <a href="/wiki/Train_of_thought" title="Train of thought">train of thought</a> within the author's narrative without paragraphs.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The typographic character of the pilcrow usually is drawn like a lowercase letter-<span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base,#202122); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">q</span>, reaching from the <a href="/wiki/Descender" title="Descender">descender</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Ascender_(typography)" title="Ascender (typography)">ascender</a> height; the <a href="/wiki/Typeface_anatomy" title="Typeface anatomy">bowl</a> (loop) can be filled or empty. Moreover, the pilcrow can also be drawn with the bowl extended downward, to resemble a reversed letter-<span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base,#202122); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">D</span>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin_and_name">Origin and name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pilcrow&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origin and name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The English word <i>pilcrow</i> derives from the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">παράγραφος</span> [<a href="/wiki/Paragraphos" title="Paragraphos"><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn">parágraphos</i></span></a>], "written in the side" or "written in the margin". In Old French, <i>parágraphos</i> became the word <span title="Old French (842-ca. 1400)-language text"><i lang="fro">paragraphe</i></span> and later <span title="Old French (842-ca. 1400)-language text"><i lang="fro">pelagraphe</i></span>. The earliest English language reference to the modern pilcrow is in 1440, with the Middle English word <span title="Middle English (1100-1500)-language text"><i lang="enm">pylcrafte</i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Use_in_Ancient_Greek">Use in Ancient Greek</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pilcrow&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Use in Ancient Greek"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GNM3227a_6r.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/GNM3227a_6r.jpg/250px-GNM3227a_6r.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="126" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/GNM3227a_6r.jpg/330px-GNM3227a_6r.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/GNM3227a_6r.jpg/440px-GNM3227a_6r.jpg 2x" data-file-width="459" data-file-height="263" /></a><figcaption>Three short paragraphs on making gunpowder in the manuscript <a href="/wiki/GNM_3227a" class="mw-redirect" title="GNM 3227a">GNM 3227a</a> (Germany, c. 1400); the first paragraph is marked with an early form of the pilcrow sign, the two following paragraphs are introduced with <i>litterae notabiliores</i> (enlarged letters).</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Villanova-rudimenta-grammatic%C3%A6-Valencia-1500.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Villanova-rudimenta-grammatic%C3%A6-Valencia-1500.jpg/220px-Villanova-rudimenta-grammatic%C3%A6-Valencia-1500.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Villanova-rudimenta-grammatic%C3%A6-Valencia-1500.jpg/330px-Villanova-rudimenta-grammatic%C3%A6-Valencia-1500.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Villanova-rudimenta-grammatic%C3%A6-Valencia-1500.jpg/440px-Villanova-rudimenta-grammatic%C3%A6-Valencia-1500.jpg 2x" data-file-width="612" data-file-height="316" /></a><figcaption>Pilcrow signs in an excerpt from a page of <i>Villanova, Rudimenta Grammaticæ</i>, printed by Spindeler in 1500 in Valencia.<sup id="cite_ref-Updike_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Updike-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pilcrow-history.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Pilcrow-history.svg/220px-Pilcrow-history.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="86" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Pilcrow-history.svg/330px-Pilcrow-history.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Pilcrow-history.svg/440px-Pilcrow-history.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="231" data-file-height="90" /></a><figcaption>Possible development from <i>capitulum</i> to modern paragraph symbol.<sup id="cite_ref-General_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-General-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The first way to divide sentences into groups in Ancient Greek was the original <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">παράγραφος</span></span> [<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn">parágraphos</i></span>], which was a horizontal line in the margin to the left of the main text.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As the <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc">paragraphos</i></span> became more popular, the horizontal line eventually changed into the Greek letter <a href="/wiki/Gamma" title="Gamma">Gamma</a> (<span class="nowrap">⟨Γ⟩</span>, <span class="nowrap">⟨γ⟩</span>) and later into <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Initial" title="Initial">litterae notabiliores</a></i></span>, which were enlarged letters at the beginning of a paragraph.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Use_in_Latin">Use in Latin</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pilcrow&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Use in Latin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The above notation soon changed to the letter <span class="nowrap">⟨K⟩</span>, an abbreviation for the Latin word <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/caput" class="extiw" title="wikt:caput">caput</a></i></span>, which translates as "head", i.e. it marks the head of a new thesis.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eventually, to mark a new section, the Latin word <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capitulum" class="extiw" title="wikt:capitulum">capitulum</a></i></span>, which translates as "little head", was used, and the letter <span class="nowrap">⟨C⟩</span> came to mark a new section, or chapter,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 300 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Use_in_Middle_Ages">Use in Middle Ages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pilcrow&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Use in Middle Ages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 1100s, <span class="nowrap">⟨C⟩</span> had completely replaced <span class="nowrap">⟨K⟩</span> as the symbol for a new chapter.<sup id="cite_ref-General_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-General-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Rubrication" title="Rubrication">Rubricators</a> eventually added one or two <a href="/wiki/Vertical_bar" title="Vertical bar">vertical bars</a> to the <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base,#202122); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">C</span> to stylize it (as <big><span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base,#202122); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">⸿</span></big>); the "<a href="/wiki/Bowl_(typography)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bowl (typography)">bowl</a>" of the symbol was filled in with dark ink and eventually looked like the modern pilcrow, <big><span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base,#202122); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">¶</span></big>.<sup id="cite_ref-General_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-General-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>(Scribes would often leave space before paragraphs to allow rubricators to add a hand-drawn pilcrow in contrasting ink. With the introduction of the printing press from the late medieval period on, space before paragraphs was still left for rubricators to complete by hand. However in some circumstances, rubricators could not draw fast enough for publishers' deadlines and books would often be sold with the beginnings of the paragraphs left blank. This is how the practice of <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/indention" class="extiw" title="wikt:indention">indention</a> before paragraphs was created.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_use">Modern use</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pilcrow&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Modern use"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Doves_Press_Bible.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Doves_Press_Bible.jpg/170px-Doves_Press_Bible.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="247" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Doves_Press_Bible.jpg/255px-Doves_Press_Bible.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Doves_Press_Bible.jpg/340px-Doves_Press_Bible.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="930" /></a><figcaption>Opening page of Genesis from the Doves Bible (<a href="/wiki/Doves_Press" title="Doves Press">Doves Press</a>, 1902): pilcrow used as a verse marker</figcaption></figure> <p>The pilcrow remains in use in modern documents in the following ways: </p> <ul><li>In <a href="/wiki/Legal_writing" title="Legal writing">legal writing</a>, it is often used whenever one <a href="/wiki/Legal_citation" title="Legal citation">cites</a> a specific paragraph within <a href="/wiki/Pleadings" class="mw-redirect" title="Pleadings">pleadings</a>, <a href="/wiki/Law_review" title="Law review">law review</a> articles, <a href="/wiki/Statute" title="Statute">statutes</a>, or other legal documents and materials. It is also used to indicate a paragraph break within quoted text.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In academic writing, it is sometimes<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> used as an in-text referencing tool to make reference to a specific paragraph from a document that does not contain page numbers, allowing the reader to find where that particular idea or statistic was sourced. The pilcrow sign followed by a number indicates the paragraph number from the top of the page. It is rarely used when citing books or journal articles.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Web_publishing" class="mw-redirect" title="Web publishing">web publishing</a> style guides, a pilcrow may be used to indicate an <a href="/wiki/Hyperlink#Anchor" title="Hyperlink">anchor link</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Proofreading" title="Proofreading">proofreading</a>, it indicates an instruction that one paragraph should be split into two or more separate paragraphs. The proofreader inserts the pilcrow at the point where a new paragraph should begin.</li> <li>In some <a href="/wiki/High-church" class="mw-redirect" title="High-church">high-church</a> <a href="/wiki/Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican">Anglican</a> and <a href="/wiki/Episcopal_Church_(United_States)" title="Episcopal Church (United States)">Episcopal</a> churches, it is used in the printed order of service to indicate that instructions follow; these indicate when the <a href="/wiki/Parish_church" title="Parish church">congregation</a> should stand, sit, and kneel, who participates in various portions of the service, and similar information. <a href="/wiki/King%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="King's College, Cambridge">King's College, Cambridge</a> uses this convention in the service booklet for the <a href="/wiki/Festival_of_Nine_Lessons_and_Carols" class="mw-redirect" title="Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols">Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols</a>. This is analogous to the writing of these instructions in red in some rubrication conventions.</li></ul> <p>The pilcrow is also often used in <a href="/wiki/Word_processing" class="mw-redirect" title="Word processing">word processing</a> and <a href="/wiki/Desktop_publishing" title="Desktop publishing">desktop publishing</a> software: </p> <ul><li>As the <a href="/wiki/Toolbar" title="Toolbar">toolbar</a> <a href="/wiki/Icon_(computing)" title="Icon (computing)">icon</a> used to toggle the display of formatting marks, such as tabs and paragraph breaks.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li>As the symbol for a paragraph break, shown when display is requested.</li></ul></li></ul> <p>The pilcrow may indicate a <a href="/wiki/Footnote" class="mw-redirect" title="Footnote">footnote</a> in a convention that uses a set of distinct typographic symbols in turn to distinguish between footnotes on a given page; it is the sixth in a series of <a href="/wiki/Footnote" class="mw-redirect" title="Footnote">footnote</a> symbols beginning with the <a href="/wiki/Asterisk" title="Asterisk">asterisk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-style_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-style-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (The modern convention is to use numbers or letters in superscript form.) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Encoding">Encoding</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pilcrow&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Encoding"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The pilcrow <a href="/wiki/Character_(computing)" title="Character (computing)">character</a> was encoded in the 1984 <a href="/wiki/Multinational_Character_Set" title="Multinational Character Set">Multinational Character Set</a> (<a href="/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation" title="Digital Equipment Corporation">Digital Equipment Corporation</a>'s extension to <a href="/wiki/ASCII" title="ASCII">ASCII</a>) at 0xB6 (decimal 182), subsequently adopted by <a href="/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1" title="ISO/IEC 8859-1">ISO/IEC 8859-1</a> ("ISO Latin-1", 1987) at the same <a href="/wiki/Code_point" title="Code point">code point</a>, and thence by <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> as <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+00B6</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">¶</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">PILCROW SIGN</span>. In addition, Unicode also defines <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+204B</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">⁋</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">REVERSED PILCROW SIGN</span>, <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+2761</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">❡</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">CURVED STEM PARAGRAPH SIGN ORNAMENT</span>, and <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+2E3F</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">⸿</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">CAPITULUM</span>. The capitulum character is obsolete, being replaced by pilcrow, but is included in Unicode for backward compatibility and historic studies. </p><p>The pilcrow symbol was included in the <a href="/wiki/Default_hardware_codepage" class="mw-redirect" title="Default hardware codepage">default hardware codepage</a> <a href="/wiki/Codepage_437" class="mw-redirect" title="Codepage 437">437</a> of <a href="/wiki/IBM_PC" class="mw-redirect" title="IBM PC">IBM PCs</a> (and all other 8-bit <a href="/wiki/OEM_codepage" class="mw-redirect" title="OEM codepage">OEM codepages</a> based on this) at code point 20 (0x14), which is an <a href="/wiki/ASCII" title="ASCII">ASCII</a> <a href="/wiki/Control_character" title="Control character">control character</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Keyboard_entry">Keyboard entry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pilcrow&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Keyboard entry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Windows</a>: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1249182868">.mw-parser-output .keyboard-key{border:1px solid #aaa;border-radius:0.2em;box-shadow:0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1);background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);background-image:linear-gradient(to bottom,var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0),var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa),var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0));color:var(--color-base,#202122);padding:0.1em 0.3em;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.85em}</style><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alt_code" title="Alt code">Alt</a></kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">0</kbd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">1</kbd><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">8</kbd><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">2</kbd> or <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">Alt</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">2</kbd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">0</kbd> (both on the numeric keypad)<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li>Microsoft <a href="/wiki/US_international_keyboard" class="mw-redirect" title="US international keyboard">US international keyboard</a> layout: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap"><a href="/wiki/AltGr_key" title="AltGr key">AltGr</a></kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">;</kbd></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS" title="Classic Mac OS">Classic Mac OS</a> and <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⌥ <a href="/wiki/Option_key" title="Option key">Opt</a></kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">7</kbd></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> and <a href="/wiki/ChromeOS" title="ChromeOS">ChromeOS</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⇧ Shift</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">U</kbd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">B</kbd><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">6</kbd> <ul><li>Linux with <a href="/wiki/Compose_key" title="Compose key">compose key</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">Compose</kbd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⇧ Shift</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">P</kbd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⇧ Shift</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">P</kbd></li> <li>ChromeOS with <a href="/wiki/Keyboard_layout#UK-International" title="Keyboard layout">UK-International keyboard layout</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap"><a href="/wiki/AltGr_key" title="AltGr key">AltGr</a></kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">r</kbd></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a>: <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">&para;</code> (introduced in <a href="/wiki/HTML_3.2" class="mw-redirect" title="HTML 3.2">HTML 3.2</a> (1997)), or <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">&#182;</code></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)" title="Vim (text editor)">Vim</a>, in insert mode: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ctrl_key" class="mw-redirect" title="Ctrl key">Ctrl</a></kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">K</kbd> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">P</kbd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">I</kbd> (upper-case i, not a digit 1 or a lower-case letter L)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/TeX" title="TeX">TeX</a>: <code>\P</code></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LaTeX" title="LaTeX">LaTeX</a>: <code>\P</code> or <code>\textpilcrow</code></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a> phones (<a href="/wiki/Gboard" title="Gboard">Gboard</a>): <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">?123</kbd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">=/<</kbd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868" /><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">¶</kbd></li> <li>Apple iPhones and iPads may require the user to set up a text replacement shortcut<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> without installing custom keyboard software. Tools may be required to easily generate a pilcrow, or other special characters.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Paragraph_signs_in_non-Latin_writing_systems">Paragraph signs in non-Latin writing systems</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pilcrow&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Paragraph signs in non-Latin writing systems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_India" title="Languages of India">Indian languages</a>, text blocks are commonly written in stanzas. Two vertical bars, <a href="/wiki/%E0%A5%A5" class="mw-redirect" title="॥">॥</a>, called a "double <i>daṇḍa</i>", are the functional equivalent of a pilcrow.<sup id="cite_ref-Ruppel_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ruppel-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Thai_language" title="Thai language">Thai</a>, the character <a href="/wiki/%E0%B9%8F" class="mw-redirect" title="๏">๏</a> marks the beginning of a stanza and <a href="/w/index.php?title=%E0%B8%AF%E0%B8%B0&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ฯะ (page does not exist)">ฯะ</a> or <a href="/w/index.php?title=%E0%B9%9A%E0%B8%B0&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="๚ะ (page does not exist)">๚ะ</a> marks the end of a stanza.<sup id="cite_ref-Thai_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thai-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Ge%CA%BDez_script#Punctuation" title="Geʽez script">Amharic</a>, the characters <a href="/wiki/%E1%8D%A0" class="mw-redirect" title="፠">፠</a> and <a href="/wiki/%E1%8D%A8" class="mw-redirect" title="፨">፨</a> can mark a section/paragraph. </p><p>In China, the <a href="/wiki/%E3%80%87" class="mw-redirect" title="〇">〇</a>, which has been used as a <a href="/wiki/Zero" class="mw-redirect" title="Zero">zero</a> character since the 12th century, has been used to mark paragraphs in older Western-made books such as the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Union_Version" title="Chinese Union Version">Chinese Union Version</a> of the Bible. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pilcrow&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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sign">minus-plus sign</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> √ </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Radical_symbol" title="Radical symbol">radical symbol</a></span></span> </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;text-align:left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> _ </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Underscore" title="Underscore">underscore</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background: var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 ); color: inherit; font-size:125%;"> <span style="position: relative; top: 0.25em;">⁀</span> </span>  <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Tie_(typography)" title="Tie 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