¶
See also: Appendix:Variations of "p"
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TranslingualEdit
EtymologyEdit
A graphic variation of the Fraktur capital letter cee, ℭ, an abbreviation of Latin Capitulo (“heading”).
Punctuation markEdit
¶ (English name pilcrow or paragraph mark) (plural ¶¶)
- Beginning of a section of text.
- Beginning of a paragraph.
- 2021 October 10, Crystal Paul, “The future of coming out”, in The Seattle Times[1], archived from the original on 4 November 2021, page E1:
- Abby Akari Alishio first came out as queer three years ago. ¶ “I started crying before I even said anything,” said Alishio. ¶ She was 19, and a couple of years out of West Seattle High School, where she’d spent four years feeling like she couldn’t safely explore her queerness or learn about queer community.
Usage notesEdit
- Used in a quotation of multi-paragraph text where dividing into paragraphs is not allowed.
- Used as an index representing "paragraph" followed by a number.