section sign
Sign in to saveAlso known as §, section symbol, section mark, double-s, silcrow, paragraph mark
character; ligature of two S’s
Key facts
- In unicode
- U+00A7 § SECTION SIGN ( & sect; )
- See also
- U+00B6 ¶ PILCROW SIGN
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The section sign (§) is a typographical symbol for referencing individually numbered sections of a document; it is frequently used when citing sections of a legal code. It is also known as the section symbol, section mark, double-s, or silcrow.
The section sign typically appears akin to a letter S stacked on top of another S.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “section sign” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.