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See also: Appendix:Variations of "p"

¶ U+00B6, ¶ PILCROW SIGN ← µ [U+00B5] Latin-1 Supplement · → [U+00B7]

❡ U+2761, ❡ CURVED STEM PARAGRAPH SIGN ORNAMENT ← ❠ [U+2760] Dingbats ❢ → [U+2762]

⁋ U+204B, ⁋ REVERSED PILCROW SIGN ← ⁊ [U+204A] General Punctuation ⁌ → [U+204C]

Translingual

A Pilcrow is placed left of the word ‘The’.

Etymology

A graphic variation of the Fraktur capital letter cee, ℭ, an abbreviation of Latin Capitulo (“heading”).

Punctuation mark

¶ (English name pilcrow or paragraph mark) (plural ¶¶)

1. Beginning of a section of text.
2. 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.