Unicode Character "¶" (U+00B6)

The character (PILCROW SIGN) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+00B6. 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 PILCROW SIGN
Unicode Codepoint U+00B6
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+00B6 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ¶
HTML (hex) ¶
HTML (named) ¶
URL Escape Code %C2%B6
CSS \00B6
JavaScript \u{00B6}
JSON \u00B6
C, C++ \U000000B6
Java \u00B6
Python \U000000B6
Rust \u{00B6}
Ruby \u{00B6}

How to type "¶"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 0 B 6. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 0 B 6. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0xB6
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00B6
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000B6

References