Pilcrow Sign

U+00B6
¶

People copy the ¶ pilcrow sign when they need a reliable text sign for paragraph markers, editorial notes, layout references without leaving keyboard-friendly formatting.

This special character matters most when paragraph markers, editorial notes, layout references need precision, consistency, and easy copy-paste behavior across documents.

Special charactersparagrapheditorialdocumentreferencetext

How people use this symbol

The pilcrow sign is commonly copied for profiles, captions, UI labels, notes, and short-form text where people want more control than emoji styling usually gives them.

It fits especially well in plain text layouts because the character is lightweight, easy to paste, and usually easier to align with surrounding words than a colorful emoji glyph.

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Symbol details

Unicode
U+00B6
HTML
¶
ASCII
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