Section symbol
Type :section: · Punctuation
Unicode name Section Sign · Latin-1 Supplement block · added in Unicode 1.1, 1993
What § is for
Cites a numbered section, most often in law and standards documents. Doubled as §§ it means a range of sections. If you are quoting a contract or a statute this is the character the citation format expects.
How to type §
The shortcuts below are the built-in routes. With
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installed you can skip all of them and type
:section: in any text field instead, which
is the same on every platform.
macOS
Option + 6
Windows
Alt + 0167
Hold Alt and type the digits on the keypad.
Shortcodes
:section: On the web
HTML §
Unicode U+00A7
JavaScript '\u{00A7}'
CSS "\00A7"
Python '\u00A7'
URL %C2%A7
What § gets mistaken for
The paragraph equivalent. Sections contain paragraphs, and citations often use both together.
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