Curved Stem Paragraph Sign Ornament ❡
Symbol Meaning
Paragraph sign resembles two letters S fused together. Historians believe that this symbol appeared as a short version of the Latin term signum sectiōnis – section sign. According to another theory, paragraph sign is a stylized S from German satz – paragraph. Today this symbol is traditionally applied in documents, where it designates individual sections, or in textbooks, where it highlights separate chapters and topics. In addition, we may encounter paragraph signs in legal papers.
Paragraph sign with a curved stem differs from the classic typographic symbol §. It rather looks like a modified pilcrow sign ¶. You can use this symbol to designate any independent part of a text — be it a chapter, a section, or a paragraph itself.
The symbol “Curved Stem Paragraph Sign Ornament” is included in the “Punctuation mark ornaments” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Curved Stem Paragraph Sign Ornament |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Punctuation mark ornaments |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2761 |
| Simple case change | 2761 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9D A1 | 226 157 161 | 14851489 | 11100010 10011101 10100001 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 61 | 39 97 | 10081 | 00100111 01100001 |
| UTF-16LE | 61 27 | 97 39 | 24871 | 01100001 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 61 | 0 0 39 97 | 10081 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 01100001 |
| UTF-32LE | 61 27 00 00 | 97 39 0 0 | 1629945856 | 01100001 00100111 00000000 00000000 |