Unicode Character "§" (U+00A7)

The character § (Section Sign) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+00A7. It is encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as §.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Section Sign
Unicode Codepoint U+00A7
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Punctuation
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+00A7 Conversion

HTML (decimal) §
HTML (hex) §
HTML (named) §
URL Escape Code %C2%A7
CSS \0000A7
JavaScript, JSON \u00A7
C, C++, Java \u00A7
Python \u00A7
Rust \u{00A7}
Ruby \u00A7

How to type "§"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 0 A 7. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 0 A 7. Release Alt.

Preview

  • §
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • §
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • §
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0xA7
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00A7
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000A7

References