HTML Entity Detail

HTML Entity - Pilcrow / Paragraph Mark

Pilcrow / Paragraph Mark is a punctuation marks and special text formatting characters. This HTML entity enables web developers to display this character reliably across all browsers without encoding issues.

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Unicode

U+00B6

HTML entity

CSS code

\00B6

Usage Examples

Use this HTML entity in professional typography for dashes, ellipsis, and special punctuation. For example, — for em-dash, … for ellipsis.

Related Entities

— Em-dash ("us-dash—use Without Spaces") – En-dash ("uk-dash – Use With Spaces Before And After") … Ellipsis ¡ Inverted Exclamation Mark ¿ Inverted Question Mark · Middle Dot/interpunct ‑ Non-breaking Hyphen Soft Hyphen (discretionary Hyphen)

Common Mistakes

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Mistake: Confusing ¶ (pilcrow) with § (section sign)

Fix: Use ¶ for paragraph references (¶ 3). Use § (§) for section references (§ 5). They reference different document levels.

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Mistake: Using the pilcrow in body text where it looks out of place

Fix: The pilcrow ¶ is primarily for legal citations and editing markup. Do not use it as a decorative bullet or separator in body text.

Pilcrow / Paragraph Mark

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Category: Punctuation Marks

Unicode	`U+00B6`
Hex Code	`¶`
HTML Code	`¶`
HTML Entity	`¶`
CSS Code	`\00B6`
Windows Shortcut	`Alt 0182`
Mac Shortcut	`⌥3`

HTML code example

<span>&#182;</span>

CSS code example

span {
    content : "\00B6";
}

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