Section Sign §
Symbol Meaning
To print section sign from the keyboard (in windows), hold down Alt and when Num Lock is enabled on the numeric panel (right) dial 0167. Alt+0167. Or copy here.
A paragraph is a complete piece of text. They are usually singled out in the official literature, such as textbooks, legislation, financial documents. Then they are numbered to simplify the orientation of the content.
The icon of section sign is two fused Latin letters S. But it is in our tradition, and some other people it looks quite different, and is not placed at the beginning and at the end of the text. Here are some examples:
။ — Myanmar
፠ — Ethiopic
᨟ — Buginese
܀ — Syriac section symbol
Unicode has many different Chapter markers for writing type khojki or sharada. Perhaps they serve the same purpose.
The symbol “Section Sign” is included in the “Latin-1 punctuation and symbols” subblock of the “Latin-1 Supplement” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Section Sign |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | § |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Unicode Subblock | Latin-1 punctuation and symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Alt Code |
Alt 0167(English Keyboard Layout)
|
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 00A7 |
| Simple case change | 00A7 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | C2 A7 | 194 167 | 49831 | 11000010 10100111 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 A7 | 0 167 | 167 | 00000000 10100111 |
| UTF-16LE | A7 00 | 167 0 | 42752 | 10100111 00000000 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 00 A7 | 0 0 0 167 | 167 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 10100111 |
| UTF-32LE | A7 00 00 00 | 167 0 0 0 | 2801795072 | 10100111 00000000 00000000 00000000 |