Pilcrow

Symbol (¶) to identify a paragraph ¶oPilcrowIn UnicodeU+00B6 ¶ PILCROW SIGN (¶)Different fromDifferent fromU+00A7 § SECTION SIGNRelatedSee also U+204B ⁋ REVERSED PILCROW SIGN U+2761 ❡ CURVED STEM PARAGRAPH SIGN ORNAMENT U+2E3F ⸿ CAPITULUM U+2E4D ⹍ PARAGRAPHUS MARK Pilcrow in typefaces: Neue Helvetica, Arial, Consolas, Adobe Garamond Pro, Baskerville Old Face, Palatino Linotype, and Gentium In typography, the pilcrow (¶) is a grapheme used to identify a paragraph. In editorial production the pilcrow typographic character is also known as the paragraph mark, the paragraph sign, the paragraph symbol, the paraph, and the blind P. In writing and editorial practice, authors and editors use the pilcrow grapheme to indicate the start of separate paragraphs, and to identify a new paragraph within a long block of text without paragraph indentions, as in the book An Essay on Typography (1931), by Eric Gill. In the Middle Ages, the practice of rubrication (type in red-ink) used a red pilcrow to indicate the beginning of a different train of thought within the author's narrative without paragraphs. The letterform of the pilcrow resembles a minuscule q or a mirrored majuscule P