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Pilcrow HTML entity ¶
¶ is the HTML entity for Pilcrow ¶ (U+00B6). Copy the decimal ¶ and hex ¶ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
¶- Legacy form
¶(no semicolon)- Code point
- U+00B6
- Unicode name
- PILCROW SIGN
- Block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Category
- Other punctuation (Po)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML 4.01 and HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ¶Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ¶Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ¶Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\B6";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u00B6"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u00b6"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{PILCROW SIGN}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %C2%B6Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | C2 B62 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 00B61 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
The pilcrow marks a paragraph. Editors show it for hidden formatting marks, and documentation sites use it as the anchor link beside a heading.
The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.
Browsers also accept the legacy form ¶ without a semicolon, for compatibility with old pages; new HTML should always end the reference with a semicolon.
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).