pilcrow
Sign in to saveAlso known as ¶, paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paragraph symbol, paraph, blind P
thumb |upright=1.5|Pilcrow in typefaces: Neue Helvetica, [[Arial, Consolas, Adobe Garamond Pro, Baskerville Old Face, Palatino Linotype, and Gentium|class=skin-invert-image]]
Key facts
- Symbol.mark
- ¶
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Origin and name
- Use in Ancient Greek
- Use in Latin
- Use in Middle Ages
- Modern use
- Encoding
- Keyboard entry
- Paragraph signs in non-Latin writing systems
- References
- External links
thumb |upright=1.5|Pilcrow in typefaces: Neue Helvetica, [[Arial, Consolas, Adobe Garamond Pro, Baskerville Old Face, Palatino Linotype, and Gentium|class=skin-invert-image]]
In typography, the pilcrow (¶) is a grapheme used to identify a paragraph. In editorial production the pilcrow typographic character is also known as the paragraph mark, the paragraph sign, the paragraph symbol, the paraph, and the blind P.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pilcrow” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.