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Paragraph Pilcrow symbol

Type :paragraph_pilcrow: · Punctuation

What ¶ is for

The paragraph mark, best known as the thing that appears when you turn on formatting marks in a word processor. In running text it numbers or points to a specific paragraph, which is why legal and academic citation leans on it.

How to type ¶

The shortcuts below are the built-in routes. With Emoji Anywhere installed you can skip all of them and type :paragraph_pilcrow: in any text field instead, which is the same on every platform.

macOS

Option + 7

Windows

Alt + 0182

Hold Alt and type the digits on the keypad.

Shortcodes

:paragraph_pilcrow:

On the web

HTML ¶

Unicode U+00B6

What ¶ gets mistaken for

§

section

Points at a numbered section rather than a paragraph. Legal citation uses both, and they are not interchangeable.

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